Mateo Manaure: Master of color who gave life to Caracas with his art (+Christmas)
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Published at: 18/10/2025 08:21 AM
On October 18, 1926, the master of
modern art Mateo Manaure, a Venezuelan considered the master of
abstractionism, was born in Uracoa, Monagas, who stood out for his murals full of color and beauty.
From 1941 to 1946 he studied at the School of
Plastic Arts and Applied Arts, now the Cristóbal
Rojas School of Visual Arts, where he studied graphic arts in the workshop of Pedro Ángel
González, to whom he was an assistant. Already in 1947, he won the first edition of the National Plastic Arts
Award.
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in Caracas, together with Carlos González Bogen, he founded the Cuatro Muros Gallery in 1952 and
they held the first Abstract Art Exhibition in the country.
Later, he began his collaboration with Carlos Raúl Villanueva's
University City project, where, in addition to contributing 26 of
his own works, he emerged as a supervisor of works of art.
Manaure's
work has gone through different stages. The first, with a representative
tendency with classic themes such as the nude, landscape and
still life, with a gestural character. Later, when he
went to Paris, France, his work evolves towards geometric abstraction and
then becomes lyrical abstraction. In this way, he worked
alternately on representation and abstraction.
Among his
works is the Uracoa Mural, on Libertador Avenue in Caracas,
which today, in addition to its beauty, is the largest vitreous
mural in the world.
99 years after his birth, Venezuelans
honor the memory of this illustrious artist who left behind as a midwife and
forger of the Caracas that rose between modernism and art.
Mazo News Team