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Guzmán de Rojas, Cecilio
(b Potosí, 1899; d La Paz, 1950). Bolivian painter. He studied painting in Potosí under Avelino Nogales. In 1920 he left for Spain, where he studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, in the studio of Julio Romero de Torres (1880–1930); later he also studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He remained in Europe until 1929, travelling through several countries and living in Paris and Rome. Although he initially had a provincial mentality, he benefited from his exposure to European artistic trends, and his work began to show the influence of Art Nouveau and Art Deco. On his return to Bolivia he settled in La Paz. There he became Director of the Escuela de Bellas Artes and Director General of the Fine Arts in the Ministry of Education, where he propagated a style and concept of native art that he called ‘Indo-American’. In 1945 he was in London, with a grant from the British Council to study restoration. Following this visit abroad he developed what he called the ‘coagulatory’ technique of painting, based on formulas developed from ancient treatises on painting.
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