Biography of Leónidas Cantillo, contemporary artist from Costa Rica

The painter Leónidas Cantillo born in San José Costa Rica on July 21, 1979.From an early age, he began studying painting with his father Edwin Cantillo, a renowned artist in the country. From this, several characters are involved with the arts, writers, musicians and painters who influenced his work and study.His technique evolved in the achievement of the landscape and the human figure, time where he did his first works in 1997.

 sample of his early works - 1998

Gradually he created his first painting concepts, proposals attracted so much admired by the Surrealists, as Giorgio D’Chirico, Magritte and Dalí, among others.