Fernando Llort’s colorful artworks and crafts celebrate the flowers, fields, animals, cultural symbols, and the lives and activities of common people in El Salvador.
As he developed his style in the remote village of La Palma, he organized workshops for people with no art training, to provide them skills and employment. Today La Palma, with 120 workshops, is the country's best-known folk art center. Since 1989 his “Foundation for the Advancement of Art and Culture” has promoted hundreds more workshops and similar social endeavors.
During El Salvador’s tragic civil war (1980-1992) his art, paradoxically, visualized the cheerful, healthy life as the true potential of the common peoples' existence, despite the surrounding devastation and suffering. Then and afterwards, he has been widely recognized for affirming their identity. His larger works beautify many important public and religious places.
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Llot will discuss these connections between art and society, illustrated by many samples of his work
