Jose Antonio Gonzalez Escobar

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José Antonio González Escobar was the seventh of eight children born to the first Tz’utuhil Maya oil painter, Rafael González y González. When he was young his family moved from the highlands of Guatemala over to Chicacao, on the hot coastal side of the San Pedro volcano. It was there that he learned how to paint. His father worked on a coffee plantation. Around five in the afternoon Rafael would come home from work and start to paint. It would get dark so José Antonio would light candles so that his father could see. It was by watching his father paint that he learned to paint himself. When he painted his first two paintings, a visitor from the U.S. whom his father knew bought them. That was how he began. When he was thirty years old he moved to Guatemala City. José Antonio favors creating paintings of the colonial Catholic churches in the Maya towns of Guatemala.

José Antonio González Escobar era el séptimo de ocho infantes nacidos del primer pintor en óleo de origen Tz’utujil, Rafael González y González. Cuando era joven su familia se trasladó del altiplano de Guatemala a Chicacao, en el lado caliente del volcán de San Pedro. Fue ahí donde aprendió a pintar. Su padre trabajaba en una plantación de café. Alrededor de las cinco de la tarde Rafael regresaba a casa desde su trabajo y empezaba a pintar. Oscurecía, entonces José Antonio encendía candelas para que su padre pudiera ver. Observando a su padre pintar fue que él mismo aprendió. Cuando pintó sus primeras dos pinturas, un visitante estadounidense, que su padre conocía, las compró. Así fue como empezó. Cuando cumplió treinta años se trasladó a la Ciudad de Guatemala. José Antonio prefiere hacer pinturas sobre las iglesias católicas coloniales en los pueblos Mayas de Guatemala.

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Procesión, San Pedro la Laguna [Procession, San Pedro la Laguna] 13" x 15" $100	Atitlán [Lake Atitlán] 13" x 15" $150	Lago de Atitlán [Lake of Atitlán: Santiago Atitlán] 13" x 15" $150

Antigua Guatemala 13" x 15" $150	Cayucos, Lago Atitlán [Lake Atitlán] 13" x 15" $150	Procesión, San Pedro la Laguna [Procession, San Pedro la Laguna] 13" x 15" $150

Actividades en la orilla del lago [Activities on the lake shore] 13" x 15" $150	Mercado, San Antonio Palopó [The market, San Antonio Palopó] 13" x 15" $150	Mercado, Atitlán [Market in Santiago Atitlán] 13" x 15" $150

Mercado, San Pedro la Laguna [Market, San Pedro la Laguna] 13" x 15" $150	Procesión, San Pedro [Procession, San Pedro] 13" x 15" $150	Iglesia de San Pedro la Laguna [Church of San Pedro la Laguna] 15" x 13" $150

Procesión Chichicastenango [Procession Chichicastenango] 15" x 13" $150

Santiago Atitlán 13" x 15" $150	Enfrente de la Iglesia, San Pablo la Laguna [In Front of the Church, San Pablo la Laguna] 13" x 15" $150	Día de Mercado, Chichicastenango [Market Day, Chichicastenango] 13" x 15" $150

San Pablo la Laguna 15" x 20" $175	Procesión [Procession] 15" x 20" $225	Calle, Antigua Guatemala [Street, Antigua Guatemala] 15" x 20" $200

San Antonio Palopó 15" x 20" $225	Mercado, San Pablo la Laguna [Market, San Pablo la Laguna] 15" x 20" $225	Mercado, Santiago Atitlán [Market, Santiago Atitlán] 15" x 20" $225

San Pablo 16" x 20" $225	Mercado, Chichicastenango [Market, Chichicastenango] 20" x 24" $300	San Pablo la Laguna 15" x 20" $225

PAINTINGS SOLD

El Palo Volador [The dance of the pole flyers] 15" x 13" SOLD: 12/01/09	Barriletes [Kites] 13" x 15" SOLD: 11/27/09	Mercado bajo de arbol, Atitlán [Market under a tree, Santiago Atitlán] 13" x 15" SOLD: 12/01/09