Jacanamijoy biography of donald

Jacanamijoy was born in and lived with his family until , when he began at 18 to study fine art, painting, philosophy and literature.

The Ingas are one of numerous communities that once formed part of the great Inca Empire. A particular feature of this community is their tradition of persistent exploration in the pursuit of knowledge and their long association with indigenous peoples of adjacent territories. The special talent of Jacanamijoy is to absorb this heritage and transform it into an outstanding artistic statement about the essentiality of natural beauty.

In this future, the artist will prove himself to be one of the outstanding artistic figures of our time. Jacanamijoy was born in and lived with his family until , when he began at 18 to study fine art, painting, philosophy and literature. This commitment to the spiritual essence of the Ingas transmutes his paintings and drawings into an unknown territory of the mind: A plush Amazonian space suffused with slowly moving, multicolored shapes that imply flying insects, flowering plants or birds.

These entrancing images of the portal exist between our waking and dreaming selves. This illusionistic space can advance or recede toward the viewer. His is an aesthetic sensibility shaped by the values, colors, textures, and theories of the cosmos articulated by the Incas, whose astronomical system is in contrast to western thought on the origins of the universe.

The late Philosopher Jose Arguelles, who studied the Mayan calendar, suggested the thirteen-moon Mayan calendar is far more accurate than the European Gregorian time line. The great preoccupation of the Mayans was the constant elaboration of their calendar and astronomy in general. They have been called the Greeks of the New World.

The high point of Mayan culture ended about Before that time they controlled a vast area, from the Yucatan in the north to Honduras in the south. The Incas, on the other hand, began their Imperial Reign between when they conquered all of the Southern Highlands of Peru. In the reign of Tupac Yupanqui c.