Lía Bermúdez (August 4, 1930 – October 22, 2021) was a Venezuelan sculptor. Bermúdez was born in

Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

. She began her studies at the School of Applied Arts in Caracas (1944–1946) and moved to

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. There in 1947, she continued her studies at the Escuela de Bellas Artes. She was a student of the masters

Francisco Narváez Francisco José Narváez (4 October 1905, Porlamar – 13 July 1982, Caracas) was a Venezuelan sculptor and painter who is perhaps best known for "Las Toninas", a sculptural group that decorates the fountain of the Plaza O'Leary in Caracas. His ...

and

Julio Maragall Julio Maragall (born 1936) is a Spanish born Venezuelan sculptor and architect. Biography He was born in Barcelona, son of the sculptor Ernest Maragall. When he was three years old, his family went into exile in Venezuela, where his mother came ...

. Major exhibitions: Centro de Bellas Artes, Maracaibo, Zulia State, 1957, Ateneo de Valencia, Carabobo State, 1966, Gallery of Visual Arts, University of Zulia, Maracaibo, Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington, DC, 1979, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, 1989. In 1992, this museum presented a retrospective of her work. She was awarded the Order of the Liberator Knighthood, an award from the University of

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, Zulia Governor's Award, Order of Maracaibo City in the first class, Order of Francisco de Miranda, Ana Maria Campos decoration and 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 ...

2006 amongst others.

References

*''This article was initially translated from the Spanish Wikipedia.''

External links

Lia Bermudez foundation
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