Dinorah bolandi biography of martin

Dinorah Bolandi was pregnant with lines and curves, colors and shadows. She never had a child of her own, but upon her death the Costa Rican artist and educator released from the warm womb of her Escazú home a collection of her paintings, drawings and quilts, which the Central Bank Museums adopted and now has on display.

Seventy of the 263 drawings Bolandi bequeathed to the Central Bank Museums went on display in February.

The interactive exhibition, which attempts to capture the spirit of Bolandi as an educator with drawing and art stations where attendees can pick up the pencil, will be on display until June 15.

By all accounts, Bolandi was an introvert, who at least in her later years rarely left her home in the western San José suburb of Escazú except to stop a neighbor passing by and ask if she could draw him or her.

Her portraits are stark reminders of human suffering, potential, imperfection and beauty.

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