Carlos Cañas | |
Birth Date: | 3 September 1924 |
Birth Place: | San Salvador, El Salvador |
Death Place: | San Salvador, El Salvador |
Occupation: | Painter |
Spouse: | Carmen Gutierrez Cañas |
Children: | 2 |
Carlos Cañas (September 3, 1924April 14, 2013)[1] was a Salvadoran painter[2] who studied art and theory at the School of Arts of El Salvador. In 1950, he received a scholarship to study art, history, aesthetics, and literature in Madrid at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
Cañas participated at the First Latin American Biennial, Spain (1951); in the Fourth Biennial of the Engraving, Japan (1964); in the Sutton Gallery, USA (1979), amongst other important exhibitions at the worldwide level.
In 2012, he received the national prize of culture Premio Nacional de Cultura of El Salvador.[3]