Jorge Vinatea Reinoso
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Jorge Vinatea Reinoso was a Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

vian painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

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Reinoso was born in Arequipa
Arequipa
Arequipa is the capital city of the Arequipa Region in southern Peru. With a population of 836,859 it is the second most populous city of the country...

. His first exhibition was in 1917, and by 1918 he had moved to Lima
Lima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...

. There, from 1919 to 1924, he was taught by painter Daniel Hernández
Daniel Hernández (painter)
Daniel Hernández Morillo was a Peruvian painter.Hernández was born in Hurpay, Huancavelica. He studied under Leonardo Barbieri, and in 1875, after attaining a scholarship from the Peruvian government, he travelled to Europe...

 at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. He worked for a while as an art critic
Art critic
An art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating art. Their written critiques, or reviews, are published in newspapers, magazines, books and on web sites...

 and caricaturist and in 1925 attained a teaching job at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes.

As a cartoonist, in 1922 he created the first Peruvian comic strip
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 series to use speech balloons: Travesuras de Serrucho y Volatín.

Reinoso died in his hometown of Arequipa.
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