Braulio Salazar (1917–2008) was a Venezuelan painter.

Biography

Salazar was born on 23 December 1917 in

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. His first exhibition took place in 1935. As he suffered from hemotitis, doctors banned him from using chemical products. This lead him to make up his own colours with earth, vegetables and other natural substances as his other compatriot, Armando Reverón, used to do. Salazar was arts teacher at the Pedro Gual high school, at the Simón Rodríguez schoon and at the School of Plastic Arts Arturo Michelena. He also was the head of the Art Workshop at the Department of Humanities in the Faculty of Engineering of the

University of Carabobo The University of Carabobo (Spanish: ''Universidad de Carabobo'') is an autonomous, public university of Venezuela located in Valencia, Venezuela. It offers graduate and postgraduate studies in different areas. The university offers a lot of gre ...

. He obtained the

National Prize of Plastic Arts of Venezuela National Prize of Plastic Arts of Venezuela is an annual award given to various artists from that country, specifically the field of drawing, printmaking and drawing pictorial. It is one of the National Culture Awards. The reward is delivered con ...

in 1976. He won the Arturo Michelena Prize, the most prestigious arts prize in Venezuela, in 1948 and 1963. The Museum of Modern Arts of Valencia is named after him.

References

External links

Biography in the site of the Central Bank of Venezuela (Spanish)

Site of the Braulio Salazar Gallery
People from Valencia, Venezuela 1917 births 2008 deaths 20th-century Venezuelan painters 20th-century Venezuelan male artists Male painters {{Venezuela-painter-stub