Abdón Pinto was born in Valencia, Carabobo state, Venezuela, in 1891, the son of Adela Pinto. He came from a humble background and worked in various trades from childhood, but he demonstrated an early aptitude for drawing.
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Venezuelan Artists
Among the merits of Varela's work, the following stand out: its relationship with the millenary technique of bronze, with the eternal theme of women and with the intrinsic values of sculptural work.
Painter. Son of Luis Alberto Blanco and Olivia Salazar. His work is nourished by the study of geometry and nature.
>Cavalieri was born in Caracas in 1969. He is a Venezuelan visual artist who throughout his long career has achieved renown for his monumental sculptures and public works integrated into architectural forms.
Alberto Egea López belonged to the same generation of landscapers that include Pedro Angel González, López Méndez and Marcos Castillo.
He was born in Manteco, Bolívar state, in 1921. He studied at the School of Plastic Arts and Applied Arts of Caracas. He was a founding member of the group "The Dissidents" and the magazine of the same name. In Paris he would begin his work within the abstractionist line.
Despite the eminently figurative meaning that characterizes him, Palacios is increasingly yielding to more abstract formal solutions. He expresses the forces in nature and inside him by means of expressive, solid strokes, like a way of recording the power of his ancestral world.
Born in El Callao, Bolivar State, in 1934. He studied at the “Escuela de Artes Plásticas Aplicadas” in Caracas. Between 1950 and 1952, he worked in the “Taller Libre de Arte”. In 1976, he represented Venezuela in the Venice Biennale.
Painter and filmmaker. Son of Miguel Ángel Hurtado and María de Hurtado. He participated for the first time in a collective exhibition at the age of 18, with José María Giménez and Octavio Alvarado.
Painter, Engraver. Writer. He received drawing and painting lessons from Tovar and Tovar and Manuel Maucó. It is as a portraitist where Herrara Toro made his main contribution. Correct draftsman, his careful invoice, his classical training and his contempt for the anecdotal, led him to execute some of the best portraits of our nineteenth century
Antonio José Fernández (The Man with the Ring) was an extraordinary popular painter, a passionate sculptor who worked with cement, joyfully coloring its shapes, making mixed-technique creations, utilising rubbish and paper, making bas-relieves with wood.
Born in Ciudad Guayana in 1973. Antonio Paz is formed by the hand of Venezuelan Masters such as Victor Antonioni, Francisco Bourne, Leonardo Acosta and Jasón Galarraga, actively participating in the conception and manufacture of works of different trends.
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