Jorge Vinatea Reinoso

He was the eighth child of a poor family, but he was able to study at the "Colegio Nacional de la Independencia Americana [es]",[1] a government school created by order of Simón Bolívar.

His talent for art had manifested itself at an early age, when he made watercolor landscapes of the area around his home.

The following year, he went to Lima, where he found employment drawing caricatures and cartoons for the weekly cultural and literary magazine Sudamérica, whose contributors included José Carlos Mariátegui, César Vallejo and Abraham Valdelomar.

That same year, he enrolled at the Escuela Nacional Superior Autónoma de Bellas Artes, where he studied with Daniel Hernández Morillo,[2] a rigorous teacher in the Academic style who had spent most of his life in Europe.

Together with his friend, Alejandro González Trujillo [es], he travelled to Puno, Cuzco and other parts of southern Peru, where he created some of his best known indigenista paintings.