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Miguel Renom de Gárate was born in Barcelona, ​​Spain in 1912, he studied at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Jorge in Barcelona, ​​Spain and at the workshop of maestro Eliseo Meifrén; he is considered a master of the Venezuelan landscape, concerned with the light he captures in those runaway moments with personality and dazzling results.

His artistic language found him generously in all expressive mediums with magnificent emotional power. When painting his themes, he never fails through his intended horizon; each of his works has beauty, plenitude and poetry. The work of master Renom was well pondered, spontaneous and simple - his realism is not romantic, for he does not paint what he wants but what he is.

He performed individually in Barcelona (1935), where he exhibited several times between 1940 and 1950. In 1936 he was awarded the gold medal of the Agrupación de Acuarela listas de Cataluña; he was also awarded in Sant Cugat del Vallès and obtained the silver medal from the Academia de San Jorge.

In 1951 He settled in Venezuela, where he exhibited frequently in Caracas, achieving a solid reputation. He worked in this country as a teacher at the América and Humboldt schools in Caracas, where he taught artistic and technical drawing, art history, art education, crafts, etc. About his exhibitions in the capital, from 1952 to 1986, the ones at the Salón Anual Oficial del Museo de Bellas Artes, the Sala Magna of the Humboldt school, the Venezuelan-American Center, the Pinocoteca Hall, the Salamandra Gallery, the gallery of Sans Souci art and Freites Gallery, are worth a special mention.

Between 1982 and 1984, he presented his artworks at the Mundo del Arte gallery in Maracaibo. The Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile holds some of his paintings. He produced more than 1,700 paintings (landscapes and portraits) and more than 2,000 drawings.

SOURCES: Arrelsve (translated), Eliso Silva (blogspot) (translated)