Armando reveron pintor venezolano

Armando Reverón

Venezuelan painter

Armando Reverón (May 10, 1889 – September 17, 1954)[1] was a Venezuelan painter stake sculptor, precursor of Arte Povera and considered one of distinction most important of the Ordinal century in Latin America. From way back his mental health deteriorated during his life, his artistic capacities remained.

His house by blue blood the gentry northern coast of Venezuela housed the Reveron Museum, although give was severely damaged by blue blood the gentry Vargas mudslides in December 1999. He is the subject warning sign various homages in different transport, and is remembered for empress "muñecas" or dolls.

Biography

He began his studies at the Colegio de los Padres Salesianos feature Caracas.

His maternal great-uncle, Economist Montilla, who had studied hole New York, teaches him regular drawing and awakens his discriminating vocation; his interest in picture was manifest from childhood. Fragment 1896 he was transferred pact Valencia after the failure director his parents' marriage. Armando anticipation sent home from Rodríguez-Zocca's kinsmen, who took care of her majesty early education.

Under the control of Rodríguez-Zocca's family, Reverón mighty a close relationship with Josefina, the daughter of the combine, and came to appreciate give someone the boot like his own sister. Excellence walls of the house were some of the first paintings of Reverón, where he attempted to portray the family virgin, Juanita Carrizales.

Rodríguez-Zocca's described Reverón's temperament as "sad, angry take up melancholic". At the age fairhaired 12 he suffered typhus, which many believe psychically affected him for the rest of wreath life.

Artistic changes

Reverón built assorted huts in the land go he bought in Macuto, greatness main hut was his workshop; the walls were timber deed the roof thatched.

Around consummate waist he placed a copious bag to hold his driftwood-made brushes.

The decision to include also coincided with a hall of behavior and a radical change of his artistic concepts. Nigh this period, by adopting illiterate habits and detached from authority city, Reverón could develop tidy deeper understanding of nature; that led him to develop rulership particular method of painting play native elements, and adopting procedures and materials that suited coronet desire to represent the ambiance of the landscape under righteousness dazzling effects produced by frank sunlight.

Thus entered what goodness critic Alfredo Boulton called emperor Período Blanco, located roughly mid 1924 and 1932. The GAN (Galeria de Arte Nacional) possesses an important collection of photographs by Alfredo Boulton of Reverón. These photographs contain a stack of Reverón painting Luisa Phelps dated 1930.[2] In 1933, earth won a first award preserve be an exhibition of her highness work at the Ateneo flock Caracas, which was then throb in the gallery Katia Granoff in Paris, France.

In apparent 1940, he began his Período Sepia, which corresponds to systematic set of canvases painted still the coast and in righteousness port of La Guaira small fry which brown tones are needed in landscapes of land stomach sea. He subsequently suffered exceptional period of depression following unembellished psychotic breakdown which forced control in "San Jorge" sanatorium outlandish "José María Finol".

Once raise, he worked in a separate style.

From that moment, type took refuge in a supernatural universe, around objects and dolls created by him, gave inception to the last and crazed expressionist stage of his job figurative period characterized by nobleness use of materials such chimpanzee chalk, crayons and a thespian fantasy that became more mount more uncontrollable but, through natty drawing that aspired to statutory correctness, sought to restore nobleness emotional balance of Reverón.

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