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"Art is never finished,
only abandoned."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"My
ART" Collage on mesonite board 48" x 34"
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Pinturas en acrylico, en oleo y acuarelas por Maria Tuma
AWARDS - PREMIOS:
Governor Haydon
Burns Scholarship; Florida - 1967. Beca de pintura.
National Scholastics; gold key in oil painting; National Competition;
1966.
Medalla de Oro en una pintura en Oleo,
competencia Nacional Escolástica.
Silver Knight Award; Miami Herald; 1966.
Premio otorgado por el periódico Miami Herald
WQBA Honorable Mention on the opening of my art show at the Bacardi
Art Gallery; 1975. Mención de Honor
en el programa de Radio WQBA por la
Exposición de Arte en el edificio Bacardi en Miami.
NIKON Award of Excellence in Nature Photography; NY. City; NY.
1976.
Premio de Excelencia en Fotografía por la NIKON
Certificate of Appreciation for the contribution to the community
from Dade County Mayor Steve Clark in 1997.
Certificado del Alcalde de Miami Sr. Clark,
por contribuir con la comunidad.
Certficate of Appreciation from Julio Martinez; Mayor of Hialeah;
Fla.
for the Advisory Board Care for the Soldiers in the Gulf War,
1991.
Certificado del Alcalde de Hialeah, por ayudar al envio de
regalos de Navidad a los soldados en 1991.
Kiwanis Club of Hialeah, for donating her artistic talent to the
community 1992
Maria and her
students received many Art Awards and commendations throughout
the years
in Dade
County
Public
Schools. Los alumnos
de Maria
han
recibido muchos premios en ARTE debido a su enseñanza.
Keep Alachua County Beautiful, plaque Silver Award for Outstanding
Achievement by Media and Public Relations. 2004. Poster designs
donated.
Mantener Bello el Condado de Alachua, placa de plata por donar
diseños de afiches promoviendo el arte en esa ciudad. 2004.
Merit Award for "PARROT", an Oil Painting at Rossetti
Art Gallery,
Pompano Beach Florida August 2010. Premio
de Merito en su óleo titulado "Cotorra" en la Galeria de Arte Rossetti en Pompano,
Florida
2010
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Artist Statement
At
the age of 9 in Havana, Cuba, María won a prize for a drawing
she made of the cartoon "Poky the Pig", she was interviewed
by Gaspar Pumarejo on TV and this gave María some more enthusiasm
to focous in Art. When she arrived in Miami, Florida and continued
her education in Junior High, her teachers saw her talent,
received awards and went to Barry University and graduated
as an Art Teacher. She taught elementary, middle and highschool
students as well as adults.
In
2011 María is spending more time painting in oils and was accepted
by ASTA (American
Society of Traditional Artists) early on 2011. She has
been requested to paint more still-lives in oils for museum
exhibitions...
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Some
people have told me to make series of a certain subject matter
because galleries like to identify an artist with a body
of work. I like too many things to limit myself to seascapes,
landscapes, animals: dogs, horses, chickens in a farm,
sheeps, some patriotic themes, people (my favorite subject),
children,
religious and Biblical illustrations or representations,
portraits,
fruits, vegetables or flowers on a still-life, ballet
and
flamenco dancers, in a realistic-impressionistic genre.
I have also
done expressionistic representations of peole as shown
in my acrylics, which many people have told me that they
like
those
a lot.
I'
m 59 years of age, and I worry about how much life time I have
left to be able to paint all that I want, sort of listed above...
and more...However little by little I will continue to do and paint
what I can under the present circumstances, with rehumatoid arthritis,
taking care of home and my 97 years old mother. It is not easy,
with little finantial income and how expensive life is today and
the high cost of art supplies, frames, advertising, etc.
People
ask me what do you paint? My answer is: many things and almost
any thing. Hoping to continue overcoming obstacles of many
sorts, to be able to complete many paintings already started
and make some new ones and be able to see them sold in my lifetime.
It would be absolutely boring to me to do the same thing over
and over again -because it sells- and that is what the galleries
want or how the "art" market is established at the
present time. It is boring to me to paint, (for instance),
all FAT PEOPLE over and over again...or just seascapes. I'm
trying to achieve a classical look, although I'm a bit hyper
and it clashes with classical realism. I'm trying to control
my self in order to achieve the degree of realism I desire.
The fast loose brush strokes comes natural to me; it is the
fine control that I need to work on....and also I want to do
some of those loose abstract-expressionistic and some impressionistic
as well. It is a race against time...but I enjoy
running it or walking it.
Miami,
Fl. November 28, 2007
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