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Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas

Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, Colombian-Dutch painter and illustrator (died 2015)

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Born
October 3, 1934
Died
June 2, 2015
Zodiac sign
Libra
Birth year
1934

About Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas

Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, also known as Michel Cardena, was a Colombian-Dutch Nouveau réalisme and pop art painter and a pioneer of video art in the Netherlands. His works cover a variety of artistic media, including painting, drawing, video, photography, object assemblages and digital art. In 1990 Cárdenas won the third prize at the First Triennial of Painting, in Osaka, Japan. In 1961 the Ministry of Culture of Colombia awarded him a scholarship to study at the Barcelona School of Graphic Arts. Between 1963 and 1978, he was awarded several scholarships from the Ministry of Culture of the Netherlands, including a travel grant to travel to the United States and Canada. He created a large and varied body of video work that explores many themes including sexuality, desire and his own Latin American heritage.

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Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas timeline

  1. In 1961 the Ministry of Culture of Colombia awarded him a scholarship to study at the Barcelona School of Graphic Arts.
  2. Between 1963 and 1978, he was awarded several scholarships from the Ministry of Culture of the Netherlands, including a travel grant to travel to the United States and Canada.
  3. In 1990 Cárdenas won the third prize at the First Triennial of Painting, in Osaka, Japan.

The world when Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas was born

Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas was born in 1934. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1934

  • #1 song"Stars Fell on Alabama"
  • Top movieIt Happened One Night
  • Best-selling bookTender Is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentFirst Masters Tournament held at Augusta National
  • Top headlineFBI kills John Dillinger outside a Chicago theater
  • Technology milestoneFirst streamlined passenger train (Burlington Zephyr)
  • Defining fadShirley Temple mania
  • Notable inventionLaundromat
  • World population2.20 billion

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderFranklin D. Roosevelt
  • Sports championSt. Louis Cardinals (World Series)
  • U.S. population126.4M

1934 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19342026
Gas$0.19$3.45/gal
Average home$4,900$435,000
Average income$2,500$67,500
Minimum wage$0.25$7.25/hr (federal)
Movie ticket$0.20$11.95
Postage stamp$0.03$0.73
Population126.4M341 million

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