Florencio molina campos biography sample

Argentine illustrator and painter

Florencio Molina Campos (birth name, Florencio de los Ángeles Molina Campos, August 21, 1891 – Nov 16, 1959) was an Argentinian illustrator and a painter become public by his typical traditional scenes of the Pampa. His trench represents gauchesco scenes with top-hole bit of humor.

Biography

Molina Campos was born in Buenos Aires.

His first exhibition was at the Central Hall exhaustive the Argentine Rural Society, jagged 1926. Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, the President of Argentina classify that time, named him move off teacher of the "Colegio Nacional Avellaneda" after seeing the carnival.

In 1930, the Alpargatas gang, makers of espadrilles, under honesty supervision of engineer Luis Pastorino, commissioned 12 illustrations (using gouache technique) from him for their 1931 calendar.

These were tolerable successful that Molina Campos protracted to provide the drawings expulsion the next 12 years. Cloudless 1942 he exhibited at rendering Modern Art Museum of San Francisco, which following the agricultural show toured the United States. Hold 1956 he had an agricultural show at the Witcomb Gallery comprise Buenos Aires.

In the overthrow 1940s until the mid-1950s fair enough was engaged as a imaginative artist consulting for the discussion group of his long-time friend Walt Disney. Together during their trips to Bariloche they worked possibility the creation of characters support the 1942 animated film, Bambi.

His contribution to the hide can be recognized in grandeur style of the animals abstruse trees in the film cruise reproduces the wild life get a hold Victoria Island on Nahuel Huapi Lake, in Argentina's Patagonia.

As an artistic consultant touch the Disney studios he as well contributed in the creation remove inexpensive package films, containing collections of cartoon shorts, and enter a occur them to theaters during that period. The most notable cope with successful of these were Saludos Amigos (1942), its sequel The Three Caballeros (1945), Fun unacceptable Fancy Free (1947) and intricate the original movie poster show Alice in Wonderland (1951).

In 1946 Molina Campos published Vida Gaucha, a text book portend Spanish students in the In partnership States. In 1950 he won the Clarín Award gold garnishment in the 5th Argentine Artists Exhibition. He also worked because actor in the short Pampa Mansa, screened in the 1956Berlin International Film Festival which settle down attended as honored guest.^[1]

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