Galo galecio biography channel

Ecuadorian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and printmaker

Galo Galecio Taranto (June 1, 1906 in Vinces – April 14, 1993 in Quito) was a prominent Ecuadorian painter, muralist, sculptor, caricaturist, and printmaker, whose work is known for its political content and recurring theme of Afro-Latin American life and culture.^[1][2]

He studied at the Guayaquil School of Fine Arts and as a young artist became politicized against Ecuador's conservative governments and the arts establishment, joining the Alere Flamman anti-fascist group in 1935 and the Group of Independent Artists and Writers in 1938.

As a member of the opposition Alianza Democrática Ecuatoriana, he participated in the movement that deposed the government of Carlos Arroyo del Río in May 1944.^[3][1]

Following the change in government, he received a two-year scholarship from Ecuador's Ministry of Education to study mural painting and printmaking at Mexico's Nat