Graciela Rodo Boulanger was born in the Bolivian capital of La Paz in 1935. Her mother was a professional pianist, and from early childhood Graciela taught to play the piano, his father was a businessman and, moreover, a connoisseur and a connoisseur of the arts. He wanted a daughter devoted herself to the beautiful, music, ballet or painting. And Graciela diligently diligently worked and that, and another, and a third. She studied drawing with Lithuanian artist Juan Reams, studied piano at the National School of Arts and has attended the ballet studio. It's time to choose between music, ballet and painting. Love of music and ballet remained with her ??forever. She admits: "Everything I learned about music and learned ballet, was useful to me in painting: harmony, composition, melodic line and contrast." Her works were shown at 150 exhibitions on five continents, its lithographs depicting children were printed on stamps of Bolivia, Children's Fund, Unicef ??and the United Nations. Graciela Rodo Boulanger work included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Paz, the Contemporary Art Center in Zurich, Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, the National Library in Paris. Although Graciela has lived in France for a long time, in his work as it abides by the Bolivian tradition. Most of all she likes to portray his short cheerful men. Graciela Rodo Boulanger tries itself in different techniques: in easel painting, watercolors, pastels, lithographs and even in sculpture, but never changes his style.
Imagine a city awash with children,
and all of them in something play -
rope, grandmother, hide and seek, towns,
are countless fun, what children know.
And they all suddenly went for a walk:
Sodom pales collapsed Gomorrah
when the kids started to play,
accompanying the game talking ......
Sundyr Nikolai
Graciela Rodo Boulanger
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