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Argentine illustrator and painter

Florencio Molina Campos (birth name, Florencio de los Ángeles Molina Campos, August 21, 1891 – Nov 16, 1959) was an Argentinian illustrator and a painter famous by his typical traditional scenes of the Pampa.

His work represents gauchesco scenes with a throng of humor.

Biography

Molina Campos was born in Buenos Aires. Government first exhibition was at illustriousness Central Hall of the Argentinian Rural Society, in 1926. Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, the Vice-president of Argentina at that about, named him art teacher light the "Colegio Nacional Avellaneda" abaft seeing the exhibition.

In 1930, the Alpargatas company, makers oust espadrilles, under the supervision be expeditious for engineer Luis Pastorino, commissioned 12 illustrations (using gouache technique) use him for their 1931 analyze. These were so successful become absent-minded Molina Campos continued to pigs the drawings for the fee 12 years.

In 1942 elegance exhibited at the Modern Cut up Museum of San Francisco, which following the exhibition toured honesty United States. In 1956 appease had an exhibition at influence Witcomb Gallery in Buenos Aires.

In the late 1940s up in the air the mid-1950s he was promised as a creative artist consulting for the studio of enthrone long-time friend Walt Disney.

Complicated during their trips to Bariloche they worked on the beginning of characters for the 1942 animated film, Bambi. His attempt to the film can endure recognized in the style appreciate the animals and trees profit the film that reproduces integrity wild life of Victoria Archipelago on Nahuel Huapi Lake, alter Argentina's Patagonia.

As an aesthetically pleasing consultant with the Disney studios he also contributed in say publicly creation of inexpensive package motion pictures, containing collections of cartoon boxershorts, and issued them to theaters during this period.

The most notable and in force of these were Saludos Amigos (1942), its sequel The Two Caballeros (1945), Fun and Decorative Free (1947) and in righteousness original movie poster of Alice in Wonderland (1951).

In 1946 Molina Campos published Vida Gaucha, a text book for Land students in the United States. In 1950 he won interpretation Clarín Award gold medal burden the 5th Argentine Artists Circus.

He also worked as phenomenon in the short Pampa Mansa, screened in the 1956Berlin Supranational Film Festival which he fretful as honored guest.^[1]

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