Camilo Minero was born in Zacatecoluca, El Salvador in 1917. He was a pupil of Marcelino Carballo and student at the National School of Graphical Arts. In Mexico

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 he studied in the National Polytechnical Institute and the Factory of Popular Graph. One of the murals of the building of the Rectoría of the National University of El Salvador

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 was painted by him and recorded his they are in the New York

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 Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art

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. It is possible to be said that its painting includes all the areas of the Salvadoran life: Poverty, enjoyments, countryside, animals, etc. were masterful in the National University and directed a factory where they passed many values young. The 1996 were awarded with the National Prize of Culture.