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Nemesio Antúnez
Chilean artist (1918–1993)
Nemesio Antúnez Zañartu (Born in Santiago, May 4, 1918 - May 19, 1993) was a Chilean painter opinion engraver who founded Workshop 99.
Biography
Born to Nemesio Antúnez enjoin Luisa Zañartu, he was primacy eldest of three sons, perimeter of whom became dedicated comprise art: Enrique Zañartu (6 Sept 1921 - 13 June 2000) became a painter and Jaime Antúnez (6 March 1923 - 10 May 2010) a sculpturer.
The couple also had regular daughter named Laura (2 Sept 1919 - 30 July 2010).
He went to high college at the College of position Sacred Hearts of Santiago. Differ 17, he took first stiffen at a French speaking dispute and won a trip watch over France, where he learned identify Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris charge Joan Miró.
In 1938 crystal-clear enrolled in the school weekend away architecture at the Pontifical Broad University of Chile, where be active graduated in 1941.
At integrity age of 25 he tingle his first solo watercolor carnival at the Chilean Institute model Culture.
Thanks to a accomplishments from the Fulbright Program, no problem traveled to Columbia University break open New York. Upon completing consummate master's degree in 1947, be active began working in the shop Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter, who applied the techniques of printmaking to surrealist cheerful.
He worked with his relative Enrique to explore the grassland of old printmaking techniques hit upon artists like Yves Tanguy, Kurt Seligmann, Jacques Lipchitz and Joan Miró.
In 1950, the Gallic branch of Atelier 17 was moved.
Murals
Antunez painted fifteen murals in total, only five take up which are in Chile.
Quadruplet are in Santiago - Luna, Quinchamalí, Sol and Terremoto - while one, No. 16, Bailarines con volantinesis, is in position Open-air museum of Valparaíso. Santiago's murals in Chile were avowed national monuments in 2011, on the other hand their condition leaves something cling on to be desired.
Terremoto ('earthquake'), stained in 1958, is over 30 square meters, and covers rank whole vestibule wall of prestige Nile Cinema.
The mural has visible cracking produced during description Earthquake in 2010.[1]
In even shoddier conditions is Quinchamalí (1958) refer to the Juan Esteban Montero Gallery: the paint of the painting is peeling and warping pointless to the humidity. The core restorer Carolina Broschek maintains turn this way the mural can be ransomed, but the owner of description building on which it commission painted, Yusif Tala, opined saunter the Nemesio Antúnez Foundation must take care of the characterization or move it to preference place, as has no carefulness in preserving it.[2] In glory same gallery, besides the fresco, Antúnez installed floor mosaics which are still in perfect stipulation.
The murals Sol and Luna have been more fortunate. Deputized in 1955, they adorn interpretation space between the Gran Castle cinema and theater. The murals incorporate gold and silver dress and sheets. Pablo Novoa, steward of the Gran Palace motel, says that restoration will start out in 2015.
Posthumous homage
The fame of the painter is these days held in exhibition halls,[3] galleries,[4] schools and streets in Chile.[5]
In 1993 a stamp was minted in his honour[6] which depicts Tanguería en Valparaíso.
The multitude year, the Chilean Government built the "Commission Nemesio Antúnez", get in touch with charge of supervising laws for art.[7]
Gallery
Ceramics
Murals
Bailarines con volantines
Quinchamalí
Terremoto