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David Moscoso: Andean Nature as a Source of Artistic Creativity


This week we're so thrilled to feature our first guest post! Alicia Lubowski-Jahn first introduced us to David Moscoso, an Ecuadorian landscape painter whose work is intriguing and inherently linked to the imagery and environment of The Andean Collection. Below is Alicia's article and interview with David Moscoso:


The Ecuadorian painter and muralist David Moscoso is an artist responsive to an artistic heritage of Andean landscape. His combination of sublimity, spirituality, and natural history has been compared to the great North American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), who found in the Andes a sublime wilderness similar to that discovered by Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), Thomas Moran (1837-1926), and others in the Sierra Nevada and Colorado Rockies of the American West. Beyond Moscoso's familiarity with landscapes by artist travelers and the academic tradition within Ecuador, he has also embraced a direct experience of natural landscape that pre-dates European contact. Moscoso has described the Andean inhabitant's communion with nature prior to the Spanish conquest as: "...concrete thought upon things and facts... living and fe...