The Most Famous

ARTISTS from Uruguay

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This page contains a list of the greatest Uruguayan Artists. The pantheon dataset contains 125 Artists, 1 of which were born in Uruguay. This makes Uruguay the birth place of the 18th most number of Artists behind Sweden, and Romania.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Uruguayan Artists of all time. This list of famous Uruguayan Artists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Carlos Páez Vilaró (1923 - 2014)

With an HPI of 56.16, Carlos Páez Vilaró is the most famous Uruguayan Artist.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.

Carlos Páez Vilaró (1 November 1923 – 24 February 2014) was a Uruguayan abstract artist, painter, potter, sculptor, muralist, writer, composer and constructor. He took an active role in the search for survivors of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes, as his son Carlos Páez Rodríguez was a passenger.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Uruguayan artists born between 1923 and 1923. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Uruguayan artists include Carlos Páez Vilaró.

Deceased Uruguayan Artists

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