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Chilean Artists
This is a list of notable of visual artists from, or associated with, Chile. A * Arturo Pacheco Altamirano (1903–1978), painter * Graciela Aranis (1908-1996), painter * Claudia Aravena (born 1968), artist, curator, filmmaker, and professor * Ximena Armas (born 1946), painter B * José Balmes (1927–2016), painter * Gracia Barrios (1927-2020), painter * Catalina Bauer (born 1976), visual artist * Joan Belmar (born 1970), visual artist * Samy Benmayor (born 1956), painter * Francisca Benítez (born 1974), visual artist and activist * Claudio Bravo (1936–2011), hyper-realism painter * Roser Bru (1923–2021), painter and engraver * Pablo Burchard (1875–1964), painter C * Celia Castro (1860–1930), painter * Carlos Catasse (1944-2010), painter * Santos Chávez (1934–2001), printmaker * Marta Colvin (1907–1995), sculptor * Adolfo Couve (1940–1998), artist and writer * Eugenio Cruz Vargas (1923–2014), painter and poet D * Juan Davila (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARTIST
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the show business, entertainment business to refer to Actor, actors, Musician, musicians, Singing, singers, Dance, dancers and other Performing arts#Performers, performers, in which they are known as ''Artiste'' instead. ''Artiste'' (French) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. The use of the term "artist" to describe Writer, writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts such as critics' reviews; "author" is generally used instead. Dictionary definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the older, broader meanings of the word "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Catasse
Carlos Catasse (1944 – January 19, 2010), born Carlos Tapia Sepúlveda in Santiago, Chile, formed his new last name by combining the first two letters of his first, middle and last names. Catasse is a Chilean painter of international recognition. Since 1969, he has lived and painted in Quito, Ecuador, the country that in 1986 granted him with Ecuador's National Prize for Painting, the Premio Eugenio Espejo. Catasse has had a great number of individual exhibitions throughout Latin America, as well as, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Spain, and the United States. After Catasse died in Quito, Ecuador at the age of 65, his remains were cremated in a cemetery in the Ecuadorian capital, and there are plans to open a gallery exhibition of his works. Museums * "Two suns for my earth", Latin American Museum of Art, Havana, Cuba. * "Pre-Columbian with fish", Larrés Drawing Museum, Aragón, Spain. * Contemporary Art Museum, Cuenca, Ecuador * Museum of Modern Art, Quito, Ecuador * Museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresa Gazitúa
Teresa Gazitúa (born December 14, 1941) is a Chilean artist and writer. Gazitúa was born in Santiago, Chile. In 1967 she earned her title of Professor of Fine Arts and graduated in 1968 with her Bachelor of Arts, majoring in painting, from the Catholic University of Chile. She has worked as Professor of Art at the University of Chile and the Catholic University of Chile. Gazitúa is a printmaker and a papermaker. She was one of the first Chilean artists to research and create paper using natural fiber Natural fibers or natural fibres (see Spelling differences#-re, -er, spelling differences) are fibers that are produced by geology, geological processes, or from the bodies of plants or animals. They can be used as a component of Composite mate .... She finds influence in the natural environment. Smooth rocks from the Maipo River serves as one natural influence in her work. Her work is held in the collections of the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America. In 2010 she wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily Garafulic
Lily Garafulic Yankovic (May 14, 1914 – March 15, 2012) was a Chilean sculptor, a member of the Generation of 40 (''Generación del 40'') artists, and museum director. Garafulic was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in New York City in 1944. Career Lily Garafulic began attending the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile in 1934, where she studied under the sculptor Lorenzo Domínguez. In 1944, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to New York City, where she studied at the New School of Social Research (now called The New School) and worked with the engraver and printmaker Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17. Garafulic was primarily a sculptor, working with marble, wood, bronze, and terra cotta. She also created many works on paper.Wren, Celia.Lily Garafulic's centennial. ''The Washington Post''. May 16, 2014. Retrieved October 3, 2015. Among Garafulic's most noted works are statues of sixteen prophets placed on the top of Lourdes Basilica in Santiago, Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freddy Flores Knistoff
Freddy Flores Knistoff is a painter and poet born in Viña del Mar, Chile in 1948. He has lived in Amsterdam since 1985. Flores Knistoff is still active in both painting and producing artist's books. He also composes experimental poetry and since 1993 has published with Hybriden-Verlag of Berlin directed by Hartmut Andryczuk. He is strongly connected to the international movement FLUXUS. In recent years, he has exhibited in Brussels (2007), London (2012), New York City (2008 and 2012), Pennsylvania (2012) and Oxford (2014). He founded the Collective Automatic Painting of Amsterdam in 1991 and through this movement influenced other artists in the use of automatic painting. Flores Knistoff is also an active member of the Phases movement that coalesced around Édouard Jaguer and involved Roberto Matta.Enrique de Santiago"La Mirada Inversa" Escáner Cultural, 5 January 2008 Exhibitions He has exhibited alongside the following artists: * 1993: Cobra exhibition Museum Amstel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Errázuriz
Maria Virginia Errázuriz Guilisasti, also known as Virginia Errázuriz, (born 1941 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean painter, professor, printmaker and draftsperson. Biography Errázuriz studied at University of Chile (1961–1965) and University of York The University of York (abbreviated as or ''York'' for Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a public Collegiate university, collegiate research university in York, England. Established in 1963, the university has expanded to more than thir ... (1979). By 1964 Errázuriz began to get involved in art. She discovered new materials. By the end of the 1960s she began to work professionally and to have exhibitions. Her exhibitions were organized by her husband Francisco Brugnoli (born 1935). He took her experimental works to the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano. In the late 1960s Errázuriz began to educate students at universities across Santiago. Her art was exhibited in Chile and across the world, including Barcelona, Buenos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Tomás Errázuriz
José Tomás Errázuriz Urmeneta (November, 1856 – 1 April 1927) was a Chilean landscape painter and diplomat. Biography He was born in Santiago, the son of Maximiano Errázuriz Valdivieso and of Amalia Urmeneta Quiroga. He studied painting at the Academy of Painting (Santiago, Chile), where he was a student of Ernesto Kirchbach and later juggled his diplomatic work in Paris, with art classes by an otherwise unknown painter named Humbert Giroez. He married Eugenia Huici, one of the most beautiful women of her age, who was to become a patron of modernism of the 20th Century and noted interior designer, and who was a decisive influence in his work. She soon convinced him to move to Paris in 1882, where his brother-in-law Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña was the Chilean consul. Biography of José Tomás Errázuriz Urmeneta @ the Museo Nacional de Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Downey
Juan Downey (May 11, 1940 – June 9, 1993) was a Chilean artist who was a pioneer in the fields of video art and interactive art. Early life and education Downey was born in Santiago, Chile. His father, David Downey V., was a distinguished architect in Chile, and following in his father's footsteps, Juan Downey studied to complete a Bachelor of Architecture in 1964 from the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile. In 1961, to further his studies and develop his artistic practice, Downey traveled to Europe. He spent a few months in Barcelona and Madrid, followed by Paris, where he lived for three years studying printmaking at Stanley William Hayter's legendary Atelier 17. During that time, he befriended artists Eugenio Téllez, Roberto Matta, Julio Le Parc, and Takis. In 1965, Downey traveled to Washington, D.C., at the invitation of the Organization of American States to present a solo show of his work. It was there that Downey would meet his future wife, Marilys Belt. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcela Donoso
Marcela Donoso Concha (Santiago, Chile; 16 February 1961) is a Chilean painter, belonging to the Magical Realism movement. Biography Marcela Donoso was born 16 February 1961, in Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile (), is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is located in the country's central valley and is the center of the Santiago Metropolitan Regi ..., Chile, and is a Chilean. She spent part of her childhood in the United States and Venezuela, returning to Chile in 1970. Between the years 1972 and 1973, she attended the Concepción Steel Artists' Workshop. She studied at the University of Chile School of Art between 1984 and 1988, studying under Adolfo Couve. She ultimately received her degree in art with a specialization in painting and engraving. Donoso lived in Mozambique, Africa between 1989 and 1991, where she studied under the artist Malangatana Ngwenya. She also learned to speak Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Davila (artist)
Juan Davila (born 1946, in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean-Australian artist and writer who migrated to Melbourne, Australia, in 1974. He is represented in major collections throughout Australia, as well as New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Tate (London) and the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo in Spain. His works are often controversial, and in 2019 the Australian Christian Lobby called for one of his pictures to be removed from Griffith University Art Museum in Brisbane, which was part of an exhibition called ''The Abyss''. The artwork ''Holy Family,'' depicts Mary cradling a giant penis, in the style of the famous Michelangelo sculpture ''The Pieta.'' Life Davila was born in Chile and studied at Colegio del Verbo Divino in Santiago 1951–1963. He studied Law at the University of Chile (1965–1969) and subsequently attended the Fine Arts School of the University of Chile (1970–1972). His first solo exhibition in his native country was Latinameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenio Cruz Vargas
Eugenio Cruz Vargas (Santiago de Chile, Santiago, October 2, 1923 – Olmué, January 18, 2014) was a notable Chilean poet and painter. His art was developed under the Realism (arts), naturalistic landscape and abstraction, and his collection of poems under the concepts of surrealism and culminate in the literary creationism.) Biography His parents were Pedro Nolasco Cruz Correa and Maria Vargas Bello, he was grandson of the literary critic Pedro Nolasco Cruz Vergara, great-grandson of Francisco Vargas Fontecilla and Vicente Correa Albano, and great-great-grandson of Andrés Bello, Andrés Bello López and Pedro Nolasco Vergara Albano. He married on July 15, 1950 with Luz Vergara Errazuriz (July 10, 1927 – June 25, 2014), great-granddaughter of Fernando Errázuriz Aldunate and Juan Mackenna O'Reilly. Together they had 9 children; José Eugenio, Soledad, Juan José, Eduardo, Josefina, Isabel, Felipe, María de la Luz and Santiago. He studied at the Colegio San Ignacio, a Soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
