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This is a list of notable of visual artists from, or associated with, Chile ... (1850–1906), painter and art teacher; Kamal Siegel (born 1978), digital artist;
Chilean art refers to all kinds of visual art developed in Chile, or by Chileans, from the arrival of the Spanish conquerors to the modern day. It also includes the native pre-Columbian pictorial expression on modern Chilean territory. Mapuches expressed their art through weaving and clothing. Machi attire was important in ceremonies.
Alberto Valenzuela Llanos [1] (August 29, 1869 – July 23, 1925), was a Chilean painter. He is among the Chile's greatest painters and one of the four Great Chilean Masters, along with Pedro Lira, Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma and Juan Francisco González.
The Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes or MNBA), located in Santiago, Chile, is one of the major centers for Chilean art and for broader South American art. Established in 1880 (making it the oldest in South America), the organization is managed by the Artistic Union (Unión Artística).
Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren (Spanish: [roˈβeɾto ˈmata]; November 11, 1911 – November 23, 2002), better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art across the Americas and Europe.
Chile has a strong tie to European arts and did not experience a large modernist movement that other Latin American countries did. [2] In 1954, he had his first exhibition at "Salón 13" in Santiago at the age of 17. It consisted of mostly oil paintings with some red chalk drawings. The exhibit received good reviews and was considered a great ...
While there, he was a mentor for promising new artists. Among the best known painters whose careers he supported are Pablo Burchard, Pedro Reszka Moreau and Celia Castro, the first Chilean woman to become a notable artist. He also compiled Chile's first "Biographical Dictionary of Painters" [1] and translated Hippolyte Taine's Philosophy of Art ...
Juan Calzadilla (born 1931), poet, painter and art critic; Julio Maragall (born 1936), sculptor; Harry Abend (1937–2021) Balthazar Armas (1941–2015), contemporary and abstract movement painter; Paul del Rio (1943–2015), sculptor and painter; Jorge Blanco (born 1945), artist, sculptor, graphic designer, illustrator and humorist; Patricia ...