www.artazone.com Marco Munoz Jaramillo was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador on November 23, 1957 to his parents Alfredo and Leonor. Jaramillo is his mother's maiden name. His father left for the United States prior to sending for Leonor and Marco and settled in Washington Heights, New York City where they lived in humble beginnings during the tumultuous 60s. The cold concrete world of city living was a far cry from the warm familiar climate of Ecuador. Marco sought comfort by sketching an isolated tree growing in a patch of dirt behind the apartment complex where he lived and another world was opened to him. Marco later developed a fascination with artists such as Picasso and Michelangelo and researched them passionately. Later, in public high school, in Elizabeth, NJ, under art teacher, Mr. Tagliaferro, Marco, being further inspired, produced pencil renderings in graphite of the human figure and in Mr. Tagliaferro's words "are refreshingly different, expressing a sensitivity never
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