Oscar Alejandro Schulz Solari Augustine (Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari) was born December 14, 1887 in a suburb of Buenos Aires, San Fernando. His parents were immigrants: Mother - Italian, and his father - a German by birth, a native of Rigi.V1912 year Solari went to Europe in Italy under the influence of Futurism, he seriously took up painting and took the pseudonym Xul Solar: the mysterious word "ksul" - is Latin "lux" (light), read backwards, and "solar" is based on the names of the artist and in Latin means "sun."
During the life of the Argentine artist Xul Solar (Ksula Solara), his close friend Jorge Luis Borges dedicated his essay, in which he wrote: "This is a great scholar, who gets everything mysterious, he does languages??, utopias and myths, visit heaven and hell of the abyss." After the death of Solara writer added: "Of course, it failed utopia, but it's not his fault, but ours. We just were not worthy of them. "
Ksul Solar was a man playing. He excitedly child designed different subjects, which he called "my toys from another universe," among them - a hybrid of piano and accordion with three rows of colored keys and a board game called "panshahmaty."
After returning home Ksul Solar did illustrations for some of the works of Borges, and the writer brought his image in his books, "World History meanness" and "Decay, Ukbar, Orbis Tertius?. In 1939 Ksul organized with its versatile interior house for intellectuals called Pan Klub.
Sometimes the artist has participated in exhibitions in Argentina and Uruguay, but his work does not fit well with the cultural context and not limited to only one means of creative expression, painting it almost did not buy, and he lived in a modest royalties from translations from European languages. Ksul argued that it represents reality, but it was the reality of his videniy.V Europe it is the only large-scale exhibition held at the Paris Museum of Modern Art for the year before the artist's death in 1962
Critics usually compared Ksula Solara with Paul Klee, whose work he admired, when I lived in Europe. Like Klee, Solar often portrayed in his paintings letters, numbers and mysterious symbols, artists combine experiments with color and love of archaic art. Amazing web Solara, which depicts the distant universe, floating in the sky of the city and the pyramid, non-existent aircraft and strange creatures - whether the people of the new race, whether residents of vanished civilizations, or simply angels - also in tune with the mystical paintings of Marc Chagall.
Spiritual quest Solara included Kabbalah, astrology, Buddhism, Tarot cards, the ancient Chinese Book of Changes, "Ching" and the occult writings of Aleister Crowley - all this combined with avant-garde painting and served as the main idea - the unification of Latin America on a spiritual basis.
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