Braulio Salazar
The painter began his studies of drawing and painting in 1928. In 1935 he made his first exhibition with work in oil, drawings and pastels. Between 1935 and 1936 he made frequent trips to Caracas, where he received guidance from Antonio Edmundo Monsanto, Rafael Monasterios and Rafael Ramón González and studied the Venezuelan masters of the 19th century; He also contacts the representatives of the Caracas School. This artist, always concerned with the human figure, from the beginning paints portraits, and by 1937 he is interested in the female figures lying. In 1945 he founded the first Rotary Club Drawing and Painting Workshop (Valencia, Edo. Carabobo). In 1947 he traveled to Mexico with a scholarship from the Government of the Carabobo State to study mural painting; He frequents the San Carlos Academy and visits Diego Rivera's studio, as well as the workshops of Moreno Galván and José Bardasano, with whom he learns the technique of fresco painting, duco painting and encaustic. The following year he visits the United States. In 1948 he returns to Valencia (Edo. Carabobo), directs the former Rotary Club workshop, which is transformed into the Arturo Michelena School and is responsible, in this institution, for the chairs of drawing and painting, composition and analysis and wall painting. That year he receives the Arturo Michelena Prize, for his figurative work Manantial (Ateneo de Valencia collection, Edo. Carabobo), which allows him to travel to Europe. In 1953 he was invited by Carlos Raúl Villanueva to make a stained glass window for the Hospital of the University City, his only work of symbolic abstract content. In 1956 he won the Arturo Michelena Award with Dream Builder (Ateneo de Valencia collection, Edo. Carabobo). From 1959 his concern for symbolic realism goes to the background as he increases his interest in the color and dynamism granted by the brushstroke. This new plastic concern, coupled with his concern for the human figure, led him in the sixties to address the theme of the figure in the landscape. In 1960 he was elected president of the First Convention of Directors of the Plastic Arts Schools of the country. In 1963 he received the Arturo Michelena Prize with Chamiza Pickers (Ateneo de Valencia collection, Edo. Carabobo) once again and in 1967 he was the founder of the Armando Reverón School in Barcelona (Edo. Anzoátegui) and the Rafael Monasterios de Maracay School. In 1982 he created a mural-stained glass window for the La Rinconada Museum of Art, in 1988 two more murals and in 1989 the Raices mural-stained glass window for the Bicentennial Plaza of Caracas. He participates in collective exhibitions in Cuba, Mexico, the United States, France, Colombia and Venezuela.
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