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List Of Chilean Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Chile or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A *Graciela Aranis (1908–1996), painter *Claudia Aravena (born 1968), artist, curator, filmmaker, and professor *Ximena Armas (born 1946), painter *Herminia Arrate (1895–1941), painter, First Lady B *Catalina Bauer (born 1976), visual artist *Roser Bru (1923–2021), painter and engraver C * Gloria Camiruaga (1941–2006), video artist *Celia Castro (1880–1930), Chile's first professional female artist *Marta Colvin (1907–1995), sculptor *Ana Cortés (1895–1998), painter D *Emma Formas de Dávila (1883–1959), painter * Marcela Donoso (born 1961), painter E *Virginia Errázuriz (born 1941), painter G *Lily Garafulic (1914–2012), sculptor *Teresa Gazitúa (born 1941), painter, writer, educator H *Laila Havilio (born 1960), sculptor L * Juana Lecaros (1920–1993), painter, printmaker M * Rebeca Matte Bello (1875–1929), sculptor *Aurora Mira (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Chile covers an area of , with a population of 17.5 million as of 2017. It shares land borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the north-east, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. Chile also controls the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island in Oceania. It also claims about of Antarctica under the Chilean Antarctic Territory. The country's capital and largest city is Santiago, and its national language is Spanish. Spain conquered and colonized the region in the mid-16th century, replacing Inca rule, but failing to conquer the independent Mapuche who inhabited what is now south-central Chile. In 1818, after declaring in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juana Lecaros
Juanita Lecaros Izquierdo (1920 – 1993) Chilean visual artist and poet. She is known for her paintings, and engravings. Lecaros used the pseudonym J. M. Sorcale for writing her poetry. Biography She studied art at the University of Chile between 1949 and 1953, where she was a student of Gustavo Carrasco in drawing, Laureano Ladrón de Guevara in mural painting and Eduardo Martínez Bonati in engraving. She also took printmaking classes at Taller 99 with Bonati. While attending university, she was a member of the "Grupo de Estudiantes Plásticos". Although Lecaros never traveled abroad, her works were exhibited in the United States, Brazil, and Italy. In parallel, she wrote poetry which she signed under the pseudonym J. M. Sorcale. Her work can be found in the museum collections at the Museum of Modern Art. See also * List of Chilean women artists This is a list of women artists who were born in Chile or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A *Graciel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandra Ruddoff
Alejandra Ruddoff (born 1960 in Santiago de Chile) is a Chilean sculptor. Biography Ruddoff studied sculpture at the University of Chile and graduated in 1985. In 1993 - having received a scholarship from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) - she acquired a post-graduate diploma of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. She was awarded the First Prize of the Chilean Ministry of Public Works in 2000. In addition, her work ''Homage to the Wind'' - which according to the writer Raúl Zurita Raúl Zurita Canessa (born 1950) is a Chilean poet. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2000. Biography Raúl Zurita was born in Santiago de Chile in 1950, where he spent his childhood and school years. In 1967 he began his stud ... has the germinating ease of a poem and at the same time the purity of most ancient monuments - was erected at the Panamericana. Special exhibitions of her three-dimensional works were staged at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotty Rosenfeld
Carlota Eugenia Rosenfeld Villarreal (20 June 1943 – 24 July 2020), known as Lotty Rosenfeld, was an interdisciplinary artist based in Santiago, Chile. She was born in Santiago, Chile, and was active during the late 1970s during the time of the Chilean military coup d'état. She carried out public art interventions in urban areas, often manipulating traffic signs in order to challenge viewers to rethink notions of public space and political agency. Her work has been exhibited in several countries throughout Latin America, and Internationally in places such as Europe, Japan, and Australia. Art movement and involvement in art Rosenfeld's involvement in art happened during the Chilean military coup d'état period. Under this regime, she utilized her artwork to demonstrate how official power and conflict zones submit bodies to the margins and borders. She wanted to be separate from the guarded spaces of art and its market therefore she used the streets to perform her work, ultimately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Rodig
Laura Rodig (, Laura del Tránsito Pizarro; September 7,1896 - October 30, 1972) was a Chilean painter, sculptor, illustrator and educator. She was one of the leaders of the Pro-Emancipation Movement of Chilean Women (MEMCH). Biography She was born in Los Andes, Chile on September 7, 1896 to Tránsito Pizarro and an unnamed father, according to the Civil Register of Births in that city. Over time she subtracted various years from her birthday before she finally settled on June 7, 1901, which was the same year as when her mother married Alejandro Rodig, a pharmacist."Chile, bautismos, 1585-1932", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FJGP-WRW : 14 February 2020), Laura del Transito Pizarro, 1896. At the age of 17 she entered the School of Fine Arts of the University of Chile; she later claimed that she was promoted by the diplomat Pedro Felipe Iñíguez, who discovered her talent. As a student, she stood out for her rebellious spirit against the academi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Puelma
Dora Puelma Francino de Fuenzalida ( Antofagasta, March 22, 1898 - Santiago, April 1, 1972) was a Chilean painter, sculptor and writer who belonged to the Generación del 13. Her work was characterized by "fidelidad a la tradición pictórica del paisaje y las técnicas de la representación que siempre defendió por sobre las tendencias abstractas que se impusieron en su época" (fidelity to the pictorial tradition of landscape painting and the techniques of representation that she always defended over the abstract tendencies that prevailed in her time), which is why her work was included within Chilean pictorial naturalism that she approached mainly through the use of oil and watercolor techniques. After entering the School of Fine Arts, she was a student of Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza, Alberto Valenzuela Llanos, Juan Francisco González, and Pablo Burchard, while in the field of sculpture, she was a disciple of Virginio Arias. Along with Elmina Moisan, Ximena Morl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christiane Pooley
Christiane Pooley (born 1983 in Temuco, Chile) is a Chilean visual artist. She lives and works in Paris. After studying at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (''PUC or UC Chile'') ( es, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) is one of the six Catholic Universities existing in the Chilean university system and one of the two pontifical universities i ..., she obtained her degree at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Pooley has developed a taste for researching and creating spaces in her paintings. In her exhibition ''Bordes del mundo'' she explores landscapes, both natural and human. References External links ...
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Henriette Petit
Henriette Petit (pseudonym of Ana Enriqueta Petit Marfan; March 3, 1894 - December 9, 1983), was a Chilean painter, member of the Grupo Montparnasse, of which she was a co-founder. Biography Ana Enriqueta Petit Marfan was born in Santiago, March 3, 1894. She began her career in the early 1910s, when she became a disciple of Juan Francisco González -considered one of the four "great masters of Chilean painting"- whom she met through her friend, the also painter, Marta Villanueva. Petit entered the School of Fine Arts in 1914, and two years later, she painted her first painting. She traveled to Europe with her family between 1920 and 1921, a period in which she had classes in Paris, France, with the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, who would portray her in a bust entitled ''Le Chilienne'' and whose works are in the artist's museum."Enriqueta Petit (1894-1983)". ''El Mercurio''. 14 September 2010. In 1923, back in Chile, Petit joined the Montparnasse group, an avant-garde movemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matilde Pérez
Matilde Pérez Cerda (December 7, 1916 – October 1, 2014) was a Chilean visual artist who specialised in kinetic art. She was a pioneer of modern and kinetic art in Chile. Her best known public pieces include ''Túnel Cinético'' (Kinetic Tunnel) in 1970, and ''el Friso'', which was originally constructed at the Centro Comercial Apumanque in 1982, but is now located at the University of Talca. Biography She was born in Santiago, Chile, on December 7, 1916. Studied Art in the University of Chile, where was student of Pablo Burchard and Jorge Caballero, also receiving lectures by Pedro Reszka and Laureano Guevara. In the Fine Arts School she married Gustavo Carrasco Délano, and they had a son, the architect Gustavo Carrasco Pérez. She moved to Paris, France, during the early 1960s, where she became interested in kinetic art, which focuses on movement, including the work of Victor Vasarely. She joined the movement and became a kinetic artist herself. Her work shows the "exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalina Parra
Catalina Parra (born May 9, 1940) is a self-taught Chilean artist, famous for her works ''It's Indisputable'' (1992) and ''Imbunches'' (1977). Parra is a strong feminist, humanist, and advocates for social and political change through her art. "Art doesn't have a gender", she says.''Catalina Parra y Leandro Katz's Meetup at the Galeria D21, Chile''. (n.d.). Retrieved April 25, 2016, fro/ref> Early life Catalina Parra was born in Santiago, Chile to famous poet Nicanor Parra and his wife.Parra, Catalina. (1991). ''Catalina Parra''. New York City: Intar Gallery. Violeta Parra, her aunt, was also in the arts - she was a visual artist. Nicanor Parra, however, was most influential to Catalina and offered his liberal and political views on many subjects, which is primarily how Catalina views many subjects today.Aranda-Alvarado, Rocío. (2001). ''Catalina Parra: It's Indisputable/Es Indiscutible''. Jersey City, New Jersey: Jersey City Museum. Catalina moved to Germany in 1968 when she w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ximena Morla Lynch
Ximena Morla Lynch (1891–1987), also known as Ximena Morla de Subercaseaux, was a Chilean feminist writer and painter. The daughter of writer Luisa Lynch and conservative politician , she had five siblings, including , a diplomat, and Carmen, a writer. Her granddaughter is the novelist Elizabeth Subercaseaux. Work Part of her literary output is known to be unpublished or scattered in newspapers and magazines – as is also the case with other feminist writers of the era such as her mother and sister, María Luisa Fernández, and Sara Hübner de Fresno. Her literary work is considered to be part of the early 20th century avant-garde that sought to massify feminist thinking and fight for women's rights. For some authors, her work can be framed within so-called "aristocratic feminism", along with other writers such as Elvira Santa Cruz Ossa, Blanca Santa Cruz Ossa, Inés Echeverría Bello, María Mercedes Vial, Teresa Wilms Montt, María Luisa Fernández, and Mariana Cox Mén ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmina Moisan
Elmina Moisan (1897-1938) was a Chilean painter remembered in the historiography as part of the Generación del 13. She has been called the "female artist who has painted the best in Chile"."Bellas Artes. Exposición retrospectiva de La Alhambra". ''La Nación''. 29 December 1951. Biography Elmina Moisan was born in Quillota, 1897. Of French descent, Moisan entered the School of Fine Arts in 1912, being a student of the Spanish painter Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza and Ricardo Richon Brunet. After receiving her teaching degree with a major in visual arts, she taught at the Liceo de Chicas N ° 4 in Santiago. Her works are mainly portraits, scenes of customs, landscapes and still lifes made with a subtle and quite personal style. Her painting, ''La coqueta'' (1916), won the first medal in the official salon of Santiago, in 1919. She married the painter Otto Georgi in 1926, who was also a member of the Generación del 13. Death and legacy In 1938, the government of Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
