Eduardo Escobar

Eduardo Escobar

Eduardo Escobar (Envigado, December 20, 1943) is a Colombian writer, poet, essayist, short story writer and journalist, co-founder of the Nadaist literary movement in 1958 along with Gonzalo Arango, Amílcar Osorio, Alberto Escobar Ángel, Humberto Navarro Lince and Darío Lemos. The Nadaists were interested in the most innovative artists of their time: Breton, Warhol, Duchamp, Dalí, Pollock, Dubuffet, Kooning, Rothko, or Francis Bacon. They were seduced by abstract art, surrealism, pop art, cubist compositions, informalism, abstract expressionism, surrealism, Dadaism, painting action, German expressionism, crude art and its relationship with madness, painting multidimensional, new forms and artistic techniques, the removal of the easel and brushes, to try pouring, splashing or dripping. They wanted to explore and experiment with composition, color, and gestures. Norman Mejía observed Dubuffet, Picasso, F. Bacon, and Lucien Freud, among many others. Álvaro Barrios started with pop art and turned to Duchamp's theories. Eduardo Escobar introduced Antoni Täpies and Rauschenberg.