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Biographies

Venezuelan Artists

Jesús Soto - Kinetic sculpture

Jesús Rafael Soto was born in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela. In his teens he worked as a commercial artist, painting posters for local movie theaters. He later entered the Escuela de Artes Plasticas in Caracas, where he met Carlos Cruz-Diez and Alejandro Otero.

Joaquín Caicedo - Painting

He was born in Guaira, Distrito Federal, in 1915. He was a student of Marcos Castillo, Rafael Ramón González, Francisco Narváez and Luis Alfredo López Méndez

Jorge Chacón - Oil painting

Painter. Born in San Cristobal, Tachira State, on September 5 1933. Died in Cagua, Aragua State in 1992. Former assistant of the drawing, painting and composition free courses at the ‘taller libre de arte’ and at the Escuela de Artes Plasticas Cristobal Rojas in Caracas.

José Antonio Dávila - Oil painting

Born in New York on January 13, 1935. In 1941 he moved with his family to Caracas. In 1950, abandoning the school, enters the Free Art Workshop begins as a realistic painter of social, folk and urban.

José Luis “Chuchi” Sánchez - Painter

Throughout a diverse career development, having exerted professions such as architect, museum designer and university professor, Chuchi Sánchez has had an equally diverse career as an artist, for which he has received various acknowledgment

Juan de Jesús Izquierdo - Painting

J.J. Izquierdo was born in Caracas the 6 of May of 1876. He passed away in this same city the 14 of January of 1952. He is represented in the Museum of Beautiful Arts, exposed in the First Hall the Circle of Beautiful Arts in 1913.

Juan Vicente Fabbiani - Couple: Oil painting

Painter. Born in Panaquire, Miranda state, in June 15, 1910 studied at the Academia de Bellas Artes, which became The Escuela de Artes Plásticas in 1936. Here, he worked as professor and later became his director.

Julio César Briceño

Sculptor. Between 1956 and 1968 he lived in France, where he developed his first notions about sculpture and wood carving, together with the master cabinetmaker Pierre Morel (Pierrefonds, France).

Ketty Violo - Collages

Born in Venezuela in 1952. From 1990, her interest lies on the manufacture of paper as an artistic resource, developing a language of abstraction that has been enriching itself with the support of different elements, technologies and continuous research.

Lía Bermúdez - Sculpture yellow patina

Lia Bermudez is a renowned Venezuelan sculptor who has spent working iron sculptures, initiated and studied at the School of Plastic Arts of Caracas (1944-1946).

Luis Alfredo López Méndez - Painting: seascape

He was born in Caracas the 23 of November of 1901. He studied in the Academy of Beautiful Arts of Caracas and, adolescent still was united to the group of painters who integrated the Circle of Beautiful Arts.

Starting your art collection

When starting a collection one must consider a variety of factors. First however, one must start by asking – why and how will I start to collect art?

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