ARTURO MICHELENA 1/3 – In 1874, at the age of eleven, he made his first self-portrait. At age 12, he produced 10 illustrations for the book “Customs of Venezuela”. He – son of a painter – was born on north of Valencia (Carabobo, Venezuela) at the threshold of a distant summer, when revolutionary war was just over. He received first pictorial instructions from his aunt and along with Rojas, Antonio Herrera Toro and Tovar became one of the greatest Venetian painters of the nineteenth century. For a better use of light, a French teacher taught him to distribute colors better, Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38XELIJgeA4 Between 1879 and 1882, in association with her father, he collected commissions for portraits, wall paintings and copies of antique paintings.
ARTURO MICHELENA 2/3 – After obtaining a scholarship he went to Paris, studying at the painter Jean-Paul Laurens. His first success came in 1887 at the Salon des Artistes Français, where he presented a painting titled “The Sick Child” (later acquired by Astors in New York at the end of the 19th century). His work can be considered as the product of his eclecticism, as opposed to the rules of the Academy of France. He specialized in historical and allegorical works, realizing emblematic paintings of Venezuelan culture. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Feyo75e0Y8 His premature death made him a fully mature genius in his race against time and death.
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