(b. Peru, 1940).
Along with Tilsa Tsuchiya (1932-1984), Alberto Quintanilla (b. 1934), and Gerardo Chávez (b. 1937), Carlos Revilla was part of a group of Peruvian painters who recreated Surrealism in their work during the 1970s, helping to usher in a return to figuration in Peruvian painting that suggested connections to the old European masters. He ranks among other Latin American artists who took realism to extremes to create perfectionist paintings. Sources:
Edward J. Sullivan, ed. Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century. London: Phaidon Press, 1996. pgs. 198 - 199.
Marta Traba, Art of Latin America: 1900–1980. Baltimore: Inter-American Development Bank, 1994. pg. 161.
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