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Venezuelan Artists
This is a list of artists, in chronological and period order, who were born in Venezuela or whose artworks are closely associated with the country. For a list of female artists, see List of Venezuelan women artists. 19th century Venezuelan artists *Pedro Castillo(1790-1858), painter *Juan Lovera (1776–1841) *Carmelo Fernández (1809–1897), artist and painter *Martín Tovar y Tovar (1827–1902) *Eloy Palacios (1847–1919), artist, sculptor and painter * Emilio Jacinto Mauri (1855–1908) * Emilio Boggio (1857–1920) *Antonio Herrera Toro (1857–1914) * Cristóbal Rojas (1857–1890) *Arturo Michelena (1863–1898) 20th century Venezuelan artists * Federico Brandt (1878–1932) *Tito Salas (1887–1974) *Armando Reverón (1889–1954) * Bárbaro Rivas (1893–1967) *Manuel Cabré (1890–1984) *Juan Félix Sánchez (1900–1997) * Francisco Narvaez (1905–1982) *Gertrude Goldschmidt "Gego" (1912–1994) *Gerd Leufert (1914–1998) * César Rengifo (1915–1980) * Gabriel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It comprises an area of , and its population was estimated at 29 million in 2022. The capital and largest urban agglomeration is the city of Caracas. The continental territory is bordered on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Colombia, Brazil on the south, Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east and on the east by Guyana. Venezuela is a presidential republic consisting of States of Venezuela, 23 states, the Venezuelan Capital District, Capital District and Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, federal dependencies covering Venezuela's offshore islands. Venezuela is among the most urbanized countries in Latin America; the vast majority of Venezuelans live in the cities of the north and in the capital. The territory o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Félix Sánchez
Juan Félix Sánchez (16 May 1900 – 18 April 1997) was Andean folk artist born in San Rafael de Mucuchíes, Mérida, Venezuela. Sánchez' talents included weaving and sculpture, and he was also the architect and builder of the Chapel of San Rafael de Mucuchíes dedicated to the Our Lady of Coromoto at El Tisure, as well as several other small chapels. While President of the Communal Meeting of San Rafael in 1929 - 1933, he organised the installation of a turbine to provide electricity to the town. In the 1980s, he was the subject of a short film designed to "acknowledge and uncover the land, the beauty and the people of Venezuela" which received several awards. Pictures Image:Chapel_Mucuchies.JPG, Chapel of San Rafael de Mucuchíes File:Capilla del Tisure.jpg, Capilla del Tisure, construída por Juan Félix y Epifania Gil, vista desde el frente File:Capilla del tisure 2.jpg, Capilla del Tisure, vista desde atrás. File:Capilla del Tisure 3.jpg, Wood Sculpture, of Christ, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narciso Debourg
Narciso Debourg (14 March 1925 – 23 January 2022) was a Venezuelan sculptor who resided in Paris with his family. Debourg was mainly known for creating visual structures using cylinders or solid geometric figures on a plane. He belonged to the Los Disidentes movement. He died on 23 January 2022, at the age of 96. See also * Jesús Rafael Soto * Alejandro Otero Alejandro Otero (El Manteco, Bolívar, March 7, 1921 — Caracas, August 13, 1990) was a Venezuelan painter of Geometric abstraction, a sculptor, a writer and a cultural promoter. He was a founding member of the Los Disidentes group. Early ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Debourg, Narciso 1925 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Venezuelan sculptors 20th-century Venezuelan male artists Venezuelan abstract sculptors Venezuelan expatriates in France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Cruz-Díez
Carlos Cruz-Diez (17 August 1923 – 27 July 2019) was a Venezuelan artist said by some scholars to have been "one of the greatest artistic innovators of the 20th century." Career In 2020, the Pérez Art Museum Miami acquired ''Chromosaturation (Cromosaturación)'', a site specific installation initially conceived in 1965, and presented in venues all over the globe, such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2011), United States; Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais in Paris (2013); and Museo Würth La Rioja, Spain (2017). His first public artwork in the United States, ''Double Physichromie'', an ongoing exploration of his ''Physichromie'' series, which began in 1959, was installed in the campus of the University of Houston in 2009 and re-sited in 2018. Exhibitions * ''Physichromies de Cruz-Diez: Oeuvres de 1954 à 1965'', Galerie Kerchache, Paris, France, 1965. * ''Cordoba Has III Bienal Interamericana de Arte'', Cordoba, Argentina, October 1966. * ''Physichromie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seka Severin De Tudja
Seka (1923–2007) was a Venezuelan ceramicist. Born in Zagreb, Croatia (then Yugoslavia), she later became known as Seka and worked in Caracas, Venezuela. Education Seka studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb under Frano Krsinic and Krsto Hegedusic from 1942 to 1945. She then received a scholarship from the French government to study in Paris from 1946 to 1948. In Paris, she continued her studies in sculpture and drawing at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and earned a degree in art history and archaeology from the Sorbonne in 1948. Career In Paris, Seka experimented with materials and processes, including creating animations with wax figurines and working in a ceramic button workshop, which deepened her technical understanding of the medium. She moved to Caracas in 1952, where she initially continued making utilitarian objects while exploring firing techniques with her new kiln. Although her early Venezuelan work was varied, she exhibited a ceramic b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesús Rafael Soto
Jesús Rafael Soto (June 5, 1923 – January 14, 2005) was a Venezuelan Kinetic art, kinetic and Op art, op artist, a sculptor and a painter. His works can be found in the collections of the main museums of the world, including Tate Modern, Tate (London), Museum Ludwig (Germany), Centre Pompidou, Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), (Roma) and Museum of Modern Art, MoMA (New York). One of the main museums of art in Venezuela, in his home town, has his name in tribute to him. Early life Jesús Rafael Soto was born in Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela. The eldest of four children born to Emma Soto and Luis Garcia Parra, a violin player. From a very young age, Soto wanted to help support his family anyway he could, but art was the most interesting to him. He picked up the guitar and also began recreating famous pieces of art that he found in various books, magazines and almanacs. At 16, Soto started his serious artistic career when he began to create and paint posters for the cinemas in C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercedes Pardo
Mercedes Clementina Marta del Carmen Pardo Ponte, known as Mercedes Pardo (July 29, 1921 – March 24, 2005) was a Venezuelan abstract art painter. Biography Pardo was born July 29, 1921 (or July 20, 1921, according to her obituary in ''El País'') in Caracas, Venezuela. By age 13 she began taking free classes at the Academia de Bellas Artes. In 1941 she joined the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Aplicadas in Caracas. She was active in painting, printmaking, and collage, and in 1991 the National Art Gallery in Caracas held an exhibition to review her work from 1941 to 1991. In 1945 she married Marco Bonta, a professor of stained glass and mural painting. Their marriage was short. In 1947 she attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Santiago in Chile where she had her first one-woman show. In 1949 she moved to Paris and attended the École du Louvre. In 1951 she married the painter Alejandro Otero. She died on March 24, 2005, in San Antonio de Los Altos, Venezuela. Legacy The Fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro Otero
Alejandro Otero (El Manteco, Bolívar, March 7, 1921 — Caracas, August 13, 1990) was a Venezuelan painter of Geometric abstraction, a sculptor, a writer and a cultural promoter. He was a founding member of the Los Disidentes group. Early life Alejandro Otero studied art at the ''Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Artes Aplicadas de Caracas'' from 1939 to 1945. In 1940 he won a prize in the ''First Venezuelan Official Art Salon''.Melanía Monteverde-Pensó From "Grove Art Online" http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=4445 After his studies, Otero traveled to New York and Paris where he focused his work on a revision of Cubism in 1945, living in Paris until 1952. In 1945 he also went to Washington, D.C., where he exhibited figurative works at the ''Pan American Union''. He was married to Venezuelan artist Mercedes Pardo in London, 1951. Descendants: Mercedes Otero Pardo, Carolina Otero Pardo, Alejandro Otero Pardo and Gil Otero Pardo Career He produced some of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Abreu
Mario Abreu (August 22, 1919 - February 20, 1993) was a Venezuelan artist known as the "master of magic objects". Biography Abreu was born in 1919 in Turmero, Venezuela. Competent in drawing since childhood, Abreu made his first drawings aged 9 and 10, when he painted his first landscapes, and moved to Caracas at a young age. He worked as a laborer in Casa Benzo while studying at night to finish his primary education. Later he attended night school from 9 to 11 pm at the Caracas School of Fine and Applied Arts, directed by Antonio Monsantos. In 1942, after winning a painting competition and winning a scholarship worth 100 bolivars per month, he was able to leave work and attend the day courses at the same school, from which he graduated in 1947. He participated in the Free Art Workshop, founded the year after his graduation. In 1951, Mario Abreu received the National Prize for Painting at the XII Annual Official Hall Venezuelan Art, allowing him to get a scholarship to continu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braulio Salazar
Braulio Salazar (1917–2008) was a Venezuelan painter. Biography Salazar was born on 23 December 1917 in Valencia. His first exhibition took place in 1935. As he suffered from hemotitis, doctors banned him from using chemical products. This lead him to make up his own colours with earth, vegetables and other natural substances as his other compatriot, Armando Reverón, used to do. Salazar was arts teacher at the Pedro Gual high school, at the Simón Rodríguez schoon and at the School of Plastic Arts Arturo Michelena. He also was the head of the Art Workshop at the Department of Humanities in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Carabobo. He obtained the National Prize of Plastic Arts of Venezuela in 1976. He won the Arturo Michelena Prize Arturo is a Spanish and Italian variant of the name Arthur. People *Arturo Alessandri (1868–1950), Chilean politician and president *Arturo Álvarez (footballer, born 1985), American-born Salvadoran footballer *Arturo Álvarez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Bracho
Gabriel Bracho (born 25 May 1915 in Los Puertos de Altagracia, Zulia, died 6 March 1995 in Caracas) was a Venezuelan artist. He and César Rengifo were major exponents of the social realism artistic movement in Venezuela.Gabriel Bracho - Un Pintor de la Realidad by David Alfaro Siquerios (1973 Pub Ed Ernesto Armitano) His work is permeated by social, political and historical themes. From 1936 to 1939 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Caracas and he continued his studies at the Escuela de Artes Aplicadas in Chile until 1942. In 1943 he began a tour of various countries including the USA, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay and Italy which culminated in him living and working in Paris. Initially influenced by the impressionists, expressionists and cubists he embraced the nationalistic and revolutionary trends of the Mexican muralists. He returned to Venezuela in 1950 and exhibited in the Caracas Museum of Fine Arts. In 1951 he exhibited at the museum of fine arts in Caracas a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
César Rengifo
César Rengifo (Caracas, Venezuela, May 14, 1915 - Caracas, Venezuela, November 2, 1980) was a Venezuelan painter and playwright representative of the realistic trends in Venezuelan painting inspired by Mexican painting, along with Héctor Poleo, Pedro León Castro and Gabriel Bracho; All of them, after having started their studies in Caracas, went to Mexico in the best period of Mexican muralism Mexican muralism refers to the art project initially funded by the Mexican government in the immediate wake of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) to depict visions of Mexico's past, present, and future, transforming the walls of many public buil .... References Venezuelan male poets Artists from Caracas Writers from Caracas 1915 births 1980 deaths 20th-century Venezuelan painters 20th-century Venezuelan male artists Burials at the National Pantheon of Venezuela 20th-century Venezuelan poets Male journalists 20th-century Venezuelan male writers 20th-century Venezuelan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
