Throwback Friday PukuPost - Visiting the National Art Gallery with my students from Unearte - 2024 - by @nahupuku

Section 9 and 10 students.

Charlotte Corday (1899), Óleo sobre lienzo de Arturo Michelena.

This was the art exhibition:

Francisco Arturo Michelena Castillo; 16 June 1863 – 29 July 1898) was a Venezuelan painter known for his historical and genre scenes and portraits.

Miranda in La Carraca is a canvas painted by Arturo Michelena in 1896 on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the death of Francisco de Miranda, which occurred on July 14, 1816 in the prison of La Carraca, in Spain. The canvas is currently in the National Art Gallery in Caracas. Both the technique and the style fit into what has been called Venezuelan Academicism. The composition is landscape. Warm colors predominate (very typical of Venezuelan academicism). It presents Miranda with clothes of the beginning of the XIX century. He shows a serene face but denotes frustration and disappointment. His gaze is directed at the viewer. The model who posed for the painting was the Venezuelan writer Eduardo Blanco.

It is one of the most emblematic works in the history of Venezuelan art of the 19th century and an undisputed icon of the Patriotic imaginary. In this work the semblance of the Caracas hero is exalted in the sordid space of his captivity, where he was held until his death. Michelena decides to portray him lying on a cot and with his gaze fixed, as if he were there to contemplate the patriots.

The National Art Gallery (Galería de Arte Nacional; GAN) also known as Gallery of National Art is located in the Plaza Morelos area of Caracas, Venezuela. The museum opened in May 1976. In 2009 it moved to a new building designed by Carlos Gómez de Llerena, Venezuela's largest museum building. There are more than 4,000 pieces in its eleven rooms (arranged in a circular layout), with international and Venezuelan art. It has paintings of more than 40 Venezuelan artists. The works include pre-Hispanic pieces, colonial-era paintings, sculptures, and Venezuelan works of modern art.

The museum's most notable piece is Michelena’s 1896 painting of Francisco de Miranda in a Spanish jail, Miranda en La Carraca. Other famous artists whose work is exhibited in the museum are Arturo Michelena, Armando Reverón, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Pájaro and Jesús Soto.

Source:

https://www.vtv.gob.ve/miranda-carraca-expone-ensenanza-gan/

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_en_La_Carraca

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galer%C3%ADa_de_Arte_Nacional_(Caracas)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Art_Gallery_(Caracas)

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Michelena

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Michelena

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Nahu Padilla @nahupuku

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