PAINTERS

PRIMO CONTI 1/3 – 1911 is the year of his artistic debut, along with the youth studies on the human figure, the precocious interest for the Fauve art, a prelude to the brilliant futurist. He has been able to receive the most alive and fruitful moods of Futurism, creating a fresh paint and filled with poetry. Always ready to question …

MARGARET KEANE 1/3 – She created a unique, popular artistic aesthetic during the 1960s, though unknown to the public for some time. She was born on September day in 1927 in Nashville (Tennessee). She immersed herself in art from an early age, and had a penchant for creating characters with large, looming eyes, her distinctive way to paintin of large-eyed …

SATURNINO HERRAN 1/3 – His work was part of a movement called “syntheticism”, of which he was the best representative. Though he died at 31 years old, his legacy is solid. The only child of a Mexican father and a French Swiss mother, he was born in Aguascalientes on a July day, in 1887. He showed early talent and at …

ARTURO MICHELENA 1/3 – He was born on a June day, 1863 in Valencia (Carabobo State), and began to paint at a young age. Michelena was a precocious artist, endowed with an extraordinary talent for drawing and color. In 1874, he made his first self-portrait. Traveled to Paris (where he studied in the famous Académie Julian), with his first great …

CANDIDO LOPEZ 1/3 – He was an Argentinian painter (photographer and soldier), who worked in the Naïve style. In September 1866 he was wounded at the Battle of Curupaytí, and lost part of his right arm. When he regains health gradually begins to educate his left hand, which does most of his known work. Although right-handed, he taught himself to …