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PAUL YGARTUA
Lives and works in Vancouver, Canada and Basque Country, Vizcaya, Spain
https://www.ygartua.com | https://www.ygartuaoriginals.com | https://www.wall90.com/

Creation and interpretation is Paul’s life. In painting he is at home in all His most famous works are his “Heritage Series” depicting North
mediums and prodigious. His styles include Realism, Expressionism, American Natives and other ethnic and cultural groups. He is renowned
Abstract Expressionism, Post Modernism, Surrealism, Abstract worldwide for his monumental murals. “The World United ” (100x25
Surrealism and Future Conceptualism, a revolutionary technique ft /3,048x762 cm) being one of his most notorious, commissioned by
developed and created by Ygartua. His continuous study and work on the United Nations for the United Nations Pavilion at the World Expo
techniques and painting mediums are apparent throughout his vast 86 Vancouver and his largest to date “Legends of the Millennium”, over
body of work. Paul Ygartua is an artist whose versatility is reflected 9,000 square foot (24x390 ft /731x11,872 cm). The American website
in his work. After graduating from Faculty of Arts Industrial Design, ASKART considers it probably the largest mural ever painted by a single
Liverpool Art College in 1965 he immigrated to Vancouver, Canada. artist. His most recent mural in 2013, United in History, commemorating
From then on painting became his whole existence. Paul Ygartua is a the history of Denny Island and The Heiltsuk Nation, Bella Bella – Pauline
painter and muralist with bases in Canada, France, Spain and England. Hilistis Waterfall and the Hereditary Chiefs of the Heiltsuk Nation, Bella
He has single handily painted some of the largest public space murals Bella dubbed him The Mural Miracle Maker. Excerpt
in Canada, United States and the Basque Country, Vizcaya, Spain. https://www.contemporaryartcuratormagazine.com/home-2/interview-with-paul-ygartu

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