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List Of Chilean Artists
This is a list of notable of visual artists from, or associated with, Chile. A * Arturo Pacheco Altamirano (1903–1978), painter * Graciela Aranis (1908-1996), painter * Claudia Aravena (born 1968), artist, curator, filmmaker, and professor * Ximena Armas (born 1946), painter B * José Balmes (1927–2016), painter * Gracia Barrios (1927-2020), painter * Catalina Bauer (born 1976), visual artist * Joan Belmar (born 1970), visual artist * Samy Benmayor (born 1956), painter * Claudio Bravo (1936–2011), hyper-realism painter * Roser Bru (1923–2021), painter and engraver * Pablo Burchard (1875–1964), painter C * Celia Castro (1860–1930), painter * Carlos Catasse (1944-2010), painter * Santos Chávez (1934–2001), printmaker * Marta Colvin (1907–1995), sculptor * Adolfo Couve (1940–1998), artist and writer * Eugenio Cruz Vargas (1923–2014), painter and poet D * Juan Davila (born 1946), artist * Emma Formas de Dávila (1883–1959), painter * Marcela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARTIST
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (although less often for actors). "Artiste" (French for artist) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. Use of the term "artist" to describe writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like used in criticism. Dictionary definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the older broad meanings of the term "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts. * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry. * A follower of a pursuit in which skill comes by study or practice. * A follower of a manual art, such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santos Chávez
Santos Chávez (1934-2001) was a Mapuche printmaker and painter from Chile, known for his engravings and woodcuts. Background Santos Segundo Chávez Alíster was born on February 7, 1934, in a small town of Canihual, between Tirúa and Quidico in the Región del Biobío, Chile.Santos Chávez: Earth's Painter. ''Chilean Cultural Heritage Site.'' (retrieved 3 July 2009)Ancan Jara, José The Engravings of Santos Chavez: Reunion from the Land on the Other Side of the Sea. ''National Museum of the American Indian''. (retrieved 3 July 2009) He was Mapuche, the indigenous people of central and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Álvaro Guevara
Álvaro Guevara Reimers (13 July 1894 – 16 October 1951) was a Chilean-born painter, based in London and loosely associated with the Bloomsbury set. Guevara left Chile in 1909 and arrived in London on 1 January 1910. He attended Bradford Technical College, studying the cloth trade, but also spent two years secretly studying at the Bradford College of Art. After failing his technical college exams he went on to the Slade from 1913 to 1916 and had a one-man show at the Omega Workshops. Shone, Richard. (1999) ''The Art of Bloomsbury: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant''. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 137-138. He married Meraud Guinness (1904-1993), a painter and member of the Guinness family, and settled in France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresa Gazitúa
Teresa Gazitúa (born December 14, 1941) is a Chilean artist and writer. Gazitúa was born in Santiago, Chile. In 1967 she earned her title of Professor of Fine Arts and graduated in 1968 with her Bachelor of Arts, majoring in painting, from the Catholic University of Chile. She has worked as Professor of Art at the University of Chile and the Catholic University of Chile. Gazitúa is a printmaker and a papermaker. She was one of the first Chilean artists to research and create paper using natural fiber. She finds influence in the natural environment. Smooth rocks from the Maipo River serves as one natural influence in her work. Her work is held in the collections of the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America. In 2010 she was nominated for an Altazor Award The Altazor Award of the National Arts or simply Altazor, is a Chilean award which is awarded annually. The winners are chosen by the own creators and performers of the arts. They were established in 1958, but were no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily Garafulic
Lily Garafulic Yankovic (May 14, 1914 – March 15, 2012) was a Chilean sculptor, a member of the Generation of 40 (''Generación del 40'') artists, and museum director. Garafulic was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in New York City in 1944. Career Lily Garafulic began attending the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile in 1934, where she studied under the sculptor Lorenzo Domínguez. In 1944, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to New York City, where she studied at the New School of Social Research (now called The New School) and worked with the engraver and printmaker Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17. Garafulic was primarily a sculptor, working with marble, wood, bronze, and terra cotta. She also created many works on paper.Wren, Celia.Lily Garafulic's centennial. ''The Washington Post''. May 16, 2014. Retrieved October 3, 2015. Among Garafulic's most noted works are statues of sixteen prophets placed on the top of Lourdes Basilica in Santiago, Chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freddy Flores Knistoff
Freddy Flores Knistoff is a painter and poet born in Viña del Mar, Chile in 1948. He has lived in Amsterdam since 1985. Flores Knistoff is still active in both painting and producing artist's books. He also composes experimental poetry and since 1993 has published with Hybriden-Verlag of Berlin directed by Hartmut Andryczuk. He is strongly connected to the international movement FLUXUS. In recent years, he has exhibited in Brussels (2007), London (2012), New York City (2008 and 2012), Pennsylvania (2012) and Oxford (2014). He founded the Collective Automatic Painting of Amsterdam in 1991 and through this movement influenced other artists in the use of automatic painting. Flores Knistoff is also an active member of the Phases movement that coalesced around Édouard Jaguer and involved Roberto Matta.Enrique de Santiago"La Mirada Inversa" Escáner Cultural, 5 January 2008 Exhibitions He has exhibited alongside the following artists: * 1993: Cobra exhibition Museum Amstel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Errázuriz
Maria Virginia Errázuriz Guilisasti, also known as Virginia Errázuriz, (born 1941 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean painter, professor, printmaker and draftsperson. Biography Errázuriz studied at University of Chile (1961–1965) and University of York , mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £8.0 million , budget = £403.6 million , chancellor = Heather Melville , vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery , students ... (1979). By 1964 Errázuriz began to get involved in art. She discovered new materials. By the end of the 1960s she began to work professionally and to have exhibitions. Her exhibitions were organized by her husband Francisco Brugnoli (born 1935). He took her experimental works to the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano. In the late 1960s Errázuriz began to educate students at universities across Santiago. Her art was exhibited in Chile and across the world, including Barcelona, Buenos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Tomás Errázuriz
José Tomás Errázuriz Urmeneta (November, 1856 – 1 April 1927) was a Chilean landscape painter and diplomat. Biography He was born in Santiago, the son of Maximiano Errázuriz Valdivieso and of Amalia Urmeneta Quiroga. He studied painting at the Academy of Painting (Santiago, Chile), where he was a student of Ernesto Kirchbach and later juggled his diplomatic work in Paris, with art classes by an otherwise unknown painter named Humbert Giroez. He married Eugenia Huici, one of the most beautiful women of her age, who was to become a patron of modernism of the 20th Century and noted interior designer, and who was a decisive influence in his work. She soon convinced him to move to Paris in 1882, where his brother-in-law Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña was the Chilean consul. Biography of José Tomás Errázuriz Urmeneta @ the Museo Nacional de Bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Downey
Juan Downey (May 11, 1940 – June 9, 1993) was a Chilean artist who was a pioneer in the fields of video art and interactive art. Early life and education Downey was born in Santiago, Chile. His father, David Downey V., was a distinguished architect in Chile, and following in his father's footsteps, Juan Downey studied to complete a Bachelor of Architecture in 1964 from the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile. In 1961, to further his studies and develop his artistic practice, Downey traveled to Europe. He spent a few months in Barcelona and Madrid, followed by Paris, where he lived for three years studying printmaking at Stanley William Hayter's legendary Atelier 17. During that time, he befriended artists Eugenio Téllez, Roberto Matta, Julio Le Parc, and Takis. In 1965, Downey traveled to Washington, D.C., at the invitation of the Organization of American States to present a solo show of his work. It was there that Downey would meet his future wife, Marilys Belt. Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcela Donoso
Marcela Donoso Concha (Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ..., Chile; February 16, 1961) is a Chilean painter, belonging to the Magical Realism movement. Biography Marcela Donoso was born February 16, 1961, in Santiago, Chile, and was a Chilean. She spent part of her childhood in the United States and Venezuela, returning to Chile in 1970. Between the years 1972 and 1973, she attended the Concepción Steel Artists' Workshop. She studied at the University of Chile School of Art between 1984 and 1988, studying under Adolfo Couve. She ultimately received her degree in art with a specialization in painting and engraving. Donoso lived in Mozambique, Africa between 1989 and 1991, where she studied under the artists, Malangatana Ngwenya. She also learned to spea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Formas De Dávila
Emma Formas de Dávila (born 1883) was a Chilean artist. She was born in Santiago and was educated at the Sacred Hearts' School. She was interested in art from her early youth, and in 1910, her desire to paint led her to enter the School of Fine Arts, where she studied under Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza and developed marked talent in portraiture A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this re .... Her paintings won commendation from competent critics and were awarded prizes in several exhibitions: in the Exposition of 1910, she was given third prize; in 1915, second prize, and in 1919, a like honor for the portrait of her husband, Ricardo Davila Silva. References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Davila, Emma Formas de 1883 births Year of death missing 20th-century Chilean women a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Davila (artist)
Juan Davila (born 1946, Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean-Australian artist and writer who migrated to Melbourne, Australia, in 1974. He is represented in major collections throughout Australia, as well as New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Tate (London) and the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo in Spain. His works are often controversial, and in 2019 the Australian Christian Lobby called for one of his pictures to be removed from Griffith University Art Museum in Brisbane, which was part of an exhibition called ''The Abyss''. The artwork ''Holy Family,'' depicts Mary cradling a giant penis, in the style of the famous Michelangelo sculpture ''The Pieta.'' Life Davila was born in Chile and studied at Colegio del Verbo Divino in Santiago 1951–1963. He studied Law at the University of Chile (1965–1969) and subsequently attended the Fine Arts School of the University of Chile (1970–1972). His first solo exhibition in his native country was Latinamerican ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |