Tito Salas: Integration of art and heroic history (+seeding)

On March 18, 1974, the Venezuelan painter, Tito Salas, died, who, with the power of color and movement, managed to immortalize the immensity of the libertarian epic led by the Liberator Simon Bolivar.

Born in the city of Caracas on May 8, 1887, this Venezuelan painter got his start at the Academy of Fine Arts in Caracas. At the age of 17, he won the Academy's Annual Competition Award and thus won a scholarship that allowed him to travel to Paris in 1905 to enroll in the Julliart Academy.

For 1911, on the centenary of Venezuela's Independence, Salas arrived in the country with the well-known Bolivarian Triptych; a vast composition in which he summarized the work of Bolívar in the three culminating moments: The Lesson of Andrés Bello, The Oath in Rome and The Solitary Death in Santa Marta, to which he later added the murals for several monuments in Caracas: the Liberator's Birthplace and the National Pantheon.

After his return from Europe, Salas resided in an old colonial-style house called El Toboso, located in Petare, next to the Guaire River and the Baloa Bridge, where he died on a day like today in 1974.

Mazo News Team