Alfredo codallo his biography
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ICON** Antonio Codallo d.1971
Codallo was born in Arima, Trinidad in 1913 but grew up in Port-of-Spain. From an early age he became very much involved in the folklore (stories) of Trinidad. As he grew older he began to undertake serious research in the folk-tales. He was employed in a local newspaper publishing company as an artist, photographer, photo-engraver and lithographic artist. Later he became Head Artist to a leading advertising agency. He also “free-lanced” for various firms. Over many years he received several commissions such as a series of pen and ink drawings of all the folk-lore characters, old time Trinidad-Bread-making- commissioned by a flour packaging company which subsequently donated the entire series to the National Museum. He has also pro- duced very realistic drawings of folk dances and festivals. Codallo’s masterpiece is a very large watercolour which depicts all the folklore characters (nocturnal) in their “habitat”. This work is preserved in the National Museum.
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With his own hand in 1962. Alfredo Antonio Codallo an outstanding Artist and Folklorist of Trinidad and Tobago attempted in a few lines to set out his
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‘FIGURES TRAPPED AT THE FOREST’S EDGE’
Jun 06, 2010Features / Columnists, The Arts Forum
Kenwyn Crichlow’s analysis of Alfred Codallo’s
watercolour painting, FOLKLORE (1958).
Kenwyn Crichlow is a distinguished Trinidadian-born artist and art educator. He is Coordinator of the Visual Arts Programme in the Centre for Creative and Festival Arts in the Faculty of Humanities and Education of the St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies. He is Lecturer in studio arts, design and art history.
This week’s article focuses on a critical essay by Crichlow on a little known but significant work of visual art held in a Trinidad repository.
In 1958, Alfred Codallo exhibited a watercolour painting, known as FOLKLORE. It currently hangs unobtrusively on the walls of the Marie Louise Hall in the National Museum and Art Gallery in Port of Spain, Trinidad. It is a narrative painting that has famously depicted the figures of the Trinidad and Tobago folk pantheon (See Illustration) in ways that had only been spoken of – its representation indicating the extraordinarily subtle, mysterious, symbolic, pictorial language that is an integral part of the heritage of 20th century Art in Trinidad and Tobago.
In an art historical context the painting provides a reflect
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Folklore Artist (1913 - 1971)
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