Luis Álvarez de Lugo

Luis Álvarez de Lugo Venezuelan plastic artist who was born in Caracas on April 23, 1923. As a child, Luis Álvarez de Lugo showed interest in painting. At school he drew his teachers on blackboards and notebooks. The first guidelines on drawing came from his uncle Raúl Santana, a popular figure in Caracas life at the beginning of the 20th century and one of the founders of the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, author of the Museo Criollo Raúl Santana (Municipal Palace of Caracas). He studied at the School of Plastic Arts in Caracas in 1941, specializing in figure and portrait. In 1950 he enrolled in the Famous Artists School. Among his exhibitions we highlight: In 1964, his first individual exhibition in the Armando Reverón Hall with portraits, female figures, horses, and Creole motifs, being considered since then as one of the best cultivators of figurative realism. Numerous individual and collective exhibitions followed in Venezuela and abroad, and which deserved important opinions from specialized critics. In 1976, the Sala Armando Reverón awarded Luis Álvarez de Lugo the Paleta de Oro award for his work Modeling in the collective exhibition XII National Annual Salon 1976. On July 23, 1980, the Council of the Diego de Losada Order of the Municipality of the Federal District of the Republic of Venezuela, conferred on the artist the Order of Diego de Losada in First Class.

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