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Contemporary Art Museum Jesús Soto. This avant-garde museum was established by Soto to promote Venezuelan art and culture. The building was designed by Carlos Raúl Villanueva. The museum displays works from Soto's personal collection, built up during the 1950s and 1960s during his stay in Europe. Museum of Contemporary Art of Zulia (Maczul).
His mother, Damiana Tovar Liendo (c.1805–1844), was from Caracas. The family had been living in exile in Puerto Rico, but returned to Venezuela immediately before Tovar's birth. [1] He received his first lessons from Celestino Martínez who, at the age of nineteen, had just become an instructor at the "Academia de Dibujo" (Drawing Academy).
In 1961, he exhibited at the XXII Official Annual Salon of Venezuelan Art in Caracas, where he was awarded the National Drawing Prize for the work "Yo también quiero ver" (I Want to See Too). He was also included in the retrospective "Pintura venezolana (1661-1961)" presented at the Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas.
Alfredo Boulton (1908–1995) was a Venezuelan artist, critic, and art historian. [1] As an art historian and critic, he is known for publishing a comprehensive history of Venezuelan art. Boulton was also an active photographer; his work is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
The Museum of Fine Arts (Spanish: Museo de Bellas Artes or MBA) is an art museum in Caracas, Venezuela.It was founded in 1917, and was originally housed in the building now known as the Palacio de las Academias.
Rock art found in southeastern Venezuela may have come from a previously unknown culture. Researchers believe that the roughly 4,000-year-old art signifies a central dispersion point from which ...
Venezuelan art collectors (6 P) Art collections in Venezuela (2 P) Venezuelan comics (1 C) ... List of artworks in University City of Caracas; Los disidentes; N.
The National Art Gallery (Galería de Arte Nacional; GAN) also known as Gallery of National Art is located in the Plaza Morelos area of Caracas, Venezuela. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The museum opened in May 1976. In 2009 it moved to a new building designed by Carlos Gómez de Llerena, Venezuela's largest museum building.