Famous Venezuelan Artists: Michelena, Reveron, Carreño, Parra
Famous Venezuelan Artists
Arturo Michelena (Painter)
Arturo Michelena was born in Valencia, Carabobo State in 1863. A contemporary and friend of Cristobal Rojas, they shared similar educational opportunities, presentation of work, and the same disease that led to their early deaths.
Michelena received more awards than Rojas, both in France and in Caracas, where he lived most of his life. One of his most famous paintings, in honor of General Paez, is known as “Vuelvan Caras.”
Armando Reverón (Painter)
Armando Reverón was born in Caracas in 1889 and is one of the most admired Venezuelan artists nationally and internationally. After two brief trips to Spain, he chose Macuto as his home, where he created his most important works. His work was distinguished by the enhancement of luministic values and the use of blue, white, and sepia colors. He died in Caracas in 1954.
Teresa Carreño (Musician)
Teresa Carreño, a great composer and pianist, was born in Caracas in 1853. Born into a musical family, she began playing the piano at the age of three under the tutelage of her father, Manuel Antonio Carreño. She studied piano in the USA and Europe, giving concerts in the best venues. She was admired by the great masters of her time (Liszt, Brahms, Wagner, etc.). She gave several concerts in Venezuela with great success, and her last was in Havana. She died in 1917 in New York.
Teresa de la Parra (Writer)
Teresa de la Parra was a Venezuelan writer, born in Paris but who died in Madrid (1890-1936).
With her novels, she pioneered the intimate and subjective novel. Her real name was Ana Teresa Parra, and she came to Venezuela at age 2. At age 15, she won first prize for poetry in college. Her first literary work, the story “Flor de Loto,” appeared in the newspaper “El Universal.” In Macuto, she wrote her first novel, “Iphigenia.”
Dissonance is a novel about the type of life sung about in Venezuela: abandoning the outside world and taking refuge in a dense world. This deep psychological novel is autobiographical.
Her second novel is called “Memories of Mama Blanca,” which was written in Switzerland during a rest cure. It is a book full of melancholy, of past and happy days of childhood.
When she died, she left an unfinished play about the life of the Liberator.
Arturo Michelena (Painter)
Arturo Michelena was born in Valencia, Carabobo State in 1863. A contemporary and friend of Cristobal Rojas, they shared similar educational opportunities, presentation of work, and the same disease that led to their early deaths.
Michelena received more awards than Rojas, both in France and in Caracas, where he lived most of his life. One of his most famous paintings, in honor of General Paez, is known as “Vuelvan Caras.”
Armando Reverón (Painter)
Armando Reverón was born in Caracas in 1889 and is one of the most admired Venezuelan artists nationally and internationally. After two brief trips to Spain, he chose Macuto as his home, where he created his most important works. His work was distinguished by the enhancement of luministic values and the use of blue, white, and sepia colors. He died in Caracas in 1954.
Teresa Carreño (Musician)
Teresa Carreño, a great composer and pianist, was born in Caracas in 1853. Born into a musical family, she began playing the piano at the age of three under the tutelage of her father, Manuel Antonio Carreño. She studied piano in the USA and Europe, giving concerts in the best venues. She was admired by the great masters of her time (Liszt, Brahms, Wagner, etc.). She gave several concerts in Venezuela with great success, and her last was in Havana. She died in 1917 in New York.
Teresa de la Parra (Writer)
Teresa de la Parra was a Venezuelan writer, born in Paris but who died in Madrid (1890-1936).
With her novels, she pioneered the intimate and subjective novel. Her real name was Ana Teresa Parra, and she came to Venezuela at age 2. At age 15, she won first prize for poetry in college. Her first literary work, the story “Flor de Loto,” appeared in the newspaper “El Universal.” In Macuto, she wrote her first novel, “Iphigenia.”
Dissonance is a novel about the type of life sung about in Venezuela: abandoning the outside world and taking refuge in a dense world. This deep psychological novel is autobiographical.
Her second novel is called “Memories of Mama Blanca,” which was written in Switzerland during a rest cure. It is a book full of melancholy, of past and happy days of childhood.
When she died, she left an unfinished play about the life of the Liberator.