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The National Art Gallery (Galería de Arte Nacional; GAN) also known as Gallery of National Art is located in the Plaza Morelos area of Caracas,
The museum has been extolled as a “patriotic celebration of national artists” reminiscent Venezuelan society.
There are more than 4,000 pieces in its eleven rooms (arranged in a circular layout), with international and Venezuelan art. It has paintings of more than 40 Venezuelan artists. The works include pre-Hispanic pieces, colonial-era paintings, sculptures, and Venezuelan works of modern art.
Temporary exhibitions exhibit artistic culture from pre-Hispanic times to the modern kinetic art.
Meyer Weismann of Caracas held his first solo exhibition of Venezuelan culture in this museum. Other famous artists whose work is exhibited in the museum are
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. The museum opened in May 1976. In 2009 it moved to a new building designed by Carlos Gómez de Llerena, Venezuela's largest museum building.
History
The museum was housed until 2009 in a neo-classical building near Los Caobos Park. The building was designed in 1935 for the Fine Art Museum (''Museo de Bellas Artes''). by Carlos Raul Villanueva, one of the best-known architects of Venezuela. The facade incorporates reliefs by Francisco Narváez, Venezuela's first modernist sculptor. In 2009 President Hugo Chávez inaugurated a new building for the National Art Gallery, allowing the Fine Art Museum to reoccupy its old building.Collections
It features works of art by Venezuelan artists and artists such as Camille Pissarro who spent time in Venezuela. The collections span some five centuries from the colonial days featuring colonial Caracas and the period of Simón Bolívar.
The museum has been extolled as a “patriotic celebration of national artists” reminiscent Venezuelan society.
There are more than 4,000 pieces in its eleven rooms (arranged in a circular layout), with international and Venezuelan art. It has paintings of more than 40 Venezuelan artists. The works include pre-Hispanic pieces, colonial-era paintings, sculptures, and Venezuelan works of modern art.
Temporary exhibitions exhibit artistic culture from pre-Hispanic times to the modern kinetic art.
Meyer Weismann of Caracas held his first solo exhibition of Venezuelan culture in this museum. Other famous artists whose work is exhibited in the museum are Arturo Michelena
Francisco Arturo Michelena Castillo (; 16 June 1863 – 29 July 1898) was a Venezuelan painter known for his historical and genre scenes and portraits.
Biography
His father, Juan Antonio Michelena (1832-1918) was also a painter. His mothe ...
, Armando Reverón
Armando Reverón (May 10, 1889 – September 17, 1954) was a Venezuelan painter and sculptor, precursor of Arte Povera and considered one of the most important of the 20th century in Latin America. While his mental health deteriorated throughou ...
, Carlos Cruz-Diez
Carlos Cruz-Diez (17 August 1923 – 27 July 2019) was a Venezuelan artist said by some scholars to have been "one of the greatest artistic innovators of the 20th century."
Exhibitions
* ''Physichromies de Cruz-Diez: Oeuvres de 1954 à 1965' ...
, Pájaro and Jesús Soto
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People
Religious figures
* Elymas Bar-Jesus, a Jew in the ''Ac ...
. The museum's most notable piece is Michelena
Michelena is a town in Táchira state, Venezuela. It was founded in 1849 by José Amando Pérez. It has a population of 22.500.
* Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as Carlos the Jackal, currently serving life sentence in France for killing thr ...
’s 1896 painting of Francisco de Miranda
Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez de Espinoza (28 March 1750 – 14 July 1816), commonly known as Francisco de Miranda (), was a Venezuelan military leader and revolutionary. Although his own plans for the independence of the Spani ...
in a Spanish jail, ''Miranda en La Carraca''.
Its collection of modern sculpture includes works by Abigail Varela, Pedro Barreto, Colette Delozanne and Carlos Mendoza. An account of the collection may be found in the Spanish edition of the Wikipedia.
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