Although this Surrealist painter and intaglio master was born in Bogota, Colombia on June 7, 1921, he taught many Mexican students during his teaching career at Iberoamericana University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He studied art in Paris with Pierre Dauget but it took many years for him to finally find his style in geometric abstractions. He relocate to Mexico in 1956, where he taught and worked, going to Europe and the US to learn printmaking techniques. He became a master at intaglio and spread his knowledge to his Mexican students.
Later Santamaria had a studio in Spain as well as Mexico City and exhibited widely in Europe, the US and Mexico. After a ten year period in India studying yoga, he continued to live and work in Magma Spain, summering in Norway until his death in 2007.
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