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Aug 13, 2016 · Try naming just one South American painter and most of us would draw a blank. Yet in the late 1800s, the eclectic Académie Julian trained artists from all over the world, including Francisco Arturo Michelena Castillo (1863-1898), who became the first Venezuelan painter to receive overseas acclaim.
Jul 11, 2022 · The Iconic Painting by Arturo Michelena We Lost (and Recovered) in the U.S. Many of us admired the copy of ‘The Sick Child’ at the National Art Gallery of Venezuela. Axel Stein managed to reconstruct the complete history of this work, in Venezuelan hands in the U.S.
In 1874, aged only eleven, he drew the illustrations for the American edition of Costumbres Venezolanas (Venezuelan Customs) by the journalist Francisco de Sales Pérez (1836-1926), who became his sponsor and introduced him to the circle of influential people associated with the statesman, Antonio Guzmán Blanco, in hopes of getting him a ...
May 30, 2017 · The government commissioned him a work in honor of General Paez, and he painted one of his most famous paintings: “Vuelvan Caras”. During this period, he gained more skills, with great mastery in using color and defining the natural movement of portraying subjects.
Mar 12, 2021 · The actress who was to become the California Motion Picture Corporation’s leading lady and a local star in San Rafael, California, was Beatriz Michelena, born on February 22, 1890 in New York...
Oct 7, 2020 · Originally an opera singer, Beatriz Michelena made the leap from the stage to the screen becoming one of the first Hispanic silent movie stars with the movie Salomy Jane. On the side, she wrote...
Nov 6, 2016 · His first great success occurred in Paris at Le Salon des Artistes Français in 1887, when Michelena presented an artwork titled “El Niño Enfermo” (1886) which was awarded the Gold Medal, second...
