Artist of the week:"The Master of Magic" Mario Abreu

laurarte2 (31)in #art • 6 years ago

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Mario Abreu

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Aragua August 23, 1919 - Caracas February 22, 1943
Painter and sculptor
Venezuelan

Mario Abreu also known as the master of magic was one of the best but less known of Venezuelan artists, since he never wanted to expose himself too much (the National Painting Prize, the Governorate of Aragua and the Culture Directorate of the Ministry of Education, Prize Painting Official (1951), Federico Brandt Award at the XII Official Salon (1951), Antonio Edmundo Monsanto Award at the XI Arturo Michelena Salon (1953), National Plastic Arts Award (1967), and National Plastic Arts Award (1976) ) among others), so it was said that he had an excellent ability to criticize

his works inspired by magic and the rituals for the cult of the saints have a rich range of colors that transport you to a fantastic world with incredible forgiveness, as sculptures

Biography:

Mario Abreu was born in Turmero, Aragua state (Venezuela) in 1919. His parents were Georgina Abreu and Ramón Pérez Guerrero. Due to financial problems, part of her childhood was spent by her godmother, Amelia Borges, very close to magic and the cult of the popular saints. The artist began to work at age nine as a dependent of a food warehouse and, as he would later tell, when he was already a recognized painter, "he enjoyed organizing the shelf with cans of sardines, sweets and soft drinks. Every afternoon I ordered those shelves because I could not resist seeing them empty. I think those were the first magical objects that I began to perceive. ''
In the middle of the year 1940 he moved to Caracas. During the day I worked as a worker and at night, I attended classes to finish elementary school. He started his painting studies at the School of Plastic and Applied Arts of Caracas, directed by Antonio Monsantos. In 1942 he won a painting contest and won a scholarship that allowed him to quit his job and complete his studies. Hers was a generation of great names; among his classmates were Alejandro Otero, Mateo Manaure, Carlos Cruz Diez and Luis Guevara Moreno, among others.
At the beginning of the 50s he traveled to Europe and settled in Paris, where he met artists such as Duchamp and understood that creative activity can not be subject to any kind of parameter, which he practiced throughout his creative life.
The so-called "master of magical objects", far from the prizes and biennials of art, won, in 1975, the National Prize for Plastic Arts. He passed away in 1993 at the age of 74 years.

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