Olga de Amaral

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Olga de Amaral (b. Bogotá, Colombia, 1932) is a Colombian textile artist. Her works, which are internationally known, often take the form of large tapestries covered with gold or silver leaf.

She is one of the textile artists who, in the 1960s, first turned textile arts from a primarily two-dimensional representational art form into a three-dimensional, abstract art form.

Her work has been shown around the world.

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• Article about Olga de Amaral
• Olga de Amaral biography
• Tejiendo muros. La obra de Olga de Amaral, Banco de la República (Colombia) - in Spanish
• Olga Amaral: ¡Única!, Cuidad Viva (magazine), March 2006, Instituto Distrital de Cultura y Turismo (Colombia) - in Spanish
• Umbra 30, 2003, Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art