Armando Reverón: The master who, with his originality, captured light in each of his works (+Christmas)

Published at: 10/05/2024 09:14 AM

On May 10, 1889, Armando Reverón was born, considered to be the most important Venezuelan artist of the 20th century.

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Caracas from 1908, until in 1911 he moved to the School of Arts and Crafts in Barcelona, Spain, then enrolled at the San Fernando Academy in Madrid, spent a season in Paris and In 1915 he returned to Venezuela, highly influenced by the great classics of Spanish painting.

Once in Caracas, he resumed his work while attending the sessions of the exclusive Círculo de Bellas Artes and abandoned academic rigor, given the enthusiasm aroused by Impressionism in him. He moved to Macuto, in the current state of La Guaira, around 1921, where he met his model and life partner, Juanita Ríos (Juana La Gorda).

His house in Macuto was declared the Armando Reverón Museum , in 1999 it was unfortunately destroyed by a natural disaster.

What is best known about Reverón are his eccentricities, perhaps more than his work itself, however, one aspect could not be separated from the other, and that is that in essence he will continue to be Reverón.

It was characterized by the humility of a small castle converted into a theater; dolls like models; disguised monkeys marking lines on the canvas; a half-naked man on the beach, with his pants tightly fitted around his waist, seduced by the glare of light; a genius plunged into misery, and raised in the arms of glory after his death on September 18, 1954.

Mazo News Team