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# Csar Manrique: an artist by nature
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## Cesar Manrique - painter, sculptor, architect, urban designer and artist
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is Lanzarote's most famous son and captures the essence of the Canary Islands.
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![Canary Islands: Csar Manrique Foundation][1]
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Canary Islands: Csar Manrique Foundation Photo: Luis Alberto Aldonza
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![Canary Islands: Jameos del Agua - designed by Csar Manrique ][2]
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Canary Islands: Jameos del Agua - designed by Csar Manrique Photo: Copyright,
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NYTECH Corp, 03
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5:03PM GMT 26 Jan 2010
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Painter, sculptor, architect, landscape artist, urban designer,
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environmentalist; Cesar Manrique is not an easy man to categorise, so
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extensive were his talents. But his status as a cultural icon and Lanzarote's
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most famous son is certainly assured.
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Manrique's buildings, monuments and interiors can be seen all over the Canary
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Islands. His extraordinary vision in fusing the textures, colours and natural
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forms of volcanic landscapes into a harmonious whole created a body of work
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that now ranks among the top cultural attractions to the islands.
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On Lanzarote, these include the Jameos del Agua lava tube, the Mirador del
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Rio, the Casa Museo del Campesino and Monument, the Jardin de Cactus and
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finally the Cesar Manrique Foundation itself, located in the artist's former
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home created inside the bubbles of a lava field.
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But as well as his physical legacy, Manrique was a seminal influence in
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guiding the rapid development - caused by the explosion of tourism - in a
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regulated, sustainable direction. It is largely down to him that Lanzarote,
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and protected areas of the larger islands, now have planning regulations that
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prohibit high-rise hotels and retain traditional colours and styles.
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Cesar Manrique Cabrera was born on April 24,1919, in Arrecife, Lanzarote, and
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spent much of his childhood in Caleta de Famara in a house by the ocean.
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## Related Articles
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* [History: land of fire and fable][3]
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26 Jan 2010
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* [Reaching for the stars][4]
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03 Feb 2010
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* [Canary Islands: sun, sea and truly stunning skylines][5]
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26 Jan 2010
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* [Food: a taste for the traditional][6]
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* [Canary Islands - Paradores: Luxuriate in the past][7]
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26 Jan 2010
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* [Activities: the great outdoors][8]
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26 Jan 2010
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After studying art in Madrid, in 1964 he travelled to New York where he met,
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among many others, Andy Warhol. A number of successful exhibitions followed,
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but Manrique began to see life in the Big Apple as ultimately artificial and
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yearned to return to Lanzarote. 'When I returned from New York, I came with
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the intention of turning my native island into one of the more beautiful
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places on the planet, due to the endless possibilities that Lanzarote had to
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offer,' he wrote later.
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It was an ambition he triumphantly fulfilled.
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[1]: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01567/CANARY_HI_RES_MANR_1
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