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He was born in Lima, the son of Jesus Quíspez Asín and Maria But, and brother of the poet and painter Caesar Quíspez Asín, known like Caesar Moor. He studied in Lima at the Academia Concha from 1915 to 1917 and later at the Escuela Nacional Superior de Bellas Artes with Daniel Hernández. In 1921 he traveled to Europe, where he enrolled at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes in Madrid with a pension granted by the Spanish Government (1921/1926). After almost a decade in Spain, he returned to Lima where he joins a new generational movement that confronts the “academic art” and “costumbrism” practices being used up to that moment. While his generational companions oriented themselves towards the abstraction, he continued exploring the plastic possibilities of neofigurativism developing a style of painting distinguished by linear and gracefully expressive drawing and by a delicate handling of oil paint comparable to watercolour in texture and shade.He remained for a short time in Peru and then travels to the USA. During eight years in the 1930s he was active in Los Angeles where he painted murals and acted in the local art scene.

His production is mainly dedicated to the human figure, and includes works in watercolor and tempera, engraving and sculpture, although he is well known as the introducer of the mural painting and the most important mural painter in Perú. His enormous liking for bulls, that his son Néstor Quíspez Asín inherited, was expressed in diverse works, some of which have been reproduced in publications and bullfighting posters. The first exhibition was in Madrid; later he exposed in cities of USA receiving a silver medal in Long Beach. He won the first prize at the International Exhibition of Viña del Mar (1937); a gold medal from the Lima City Council (1941) for his fresco paintings, and the National Painting Prize (1950 a1nd 1980). Some of his murals are located at the dining room of the House of Representatives, at the Ministry of Public Education and at the National University of Engineering. The same composition technique used in his murals was applied to his canvas, following a colorful an vibrating realism; he also used to simplify his designs and reduce them to a symbolic profile, as the cubism does. He achieved a modern style touched with a classical reminiscence. From 1943 to 1969 he taught at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Lima.

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