César Rengifo

The Venezuelan plastic artist César Rengifo, was born in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 14, 1915 and died on November 2, 1980. He was a Venezuelan painter and playwright representative of realistic trends in Venezuelan painting inspired by painting together with Héctor Poleo , Pedro León Castro and Gabriel Bracho; All of them, after starting their studies in Caracas, went to Mexico during the best period of Mexican muralism. Social fighter, intellectual and communist militant. During his stay in the Mexican capital, Rengifo was significantly influenced by the work of Diego Rivera, reaching a style that departed from the precepts of the Caracas School and gave relevance to the social message of painting, thanks to a realism founded in a rural theme for which he adopted a technique that is close to that of the primitive Italians of smooth impasto and relief and chiaroscuro effects obtained with somber tones. In 1954, on the occasion of the XV Annual Official Exhibition of Venezuelan Art, he won the National Award and also the Arturo Michelena Award, in the Official Exhibition and in the Arturo Michelena Exhibition. From 1958 to 1960 he was appointed director of Cultural Extension at the Universidad de los Andes, in Mérida. In his tenure as Director of Culture at the Universidad de Los Andes, he founded the Mérida School of Plastic Arts in 1959. Commissioned by the Commission for the Sesquicentennial of the Battle of Carabobo, of the Ministry of Defense, he created in 1973 the mural "Creators of Nationality", located in Paseo Los Próceres in Caracas.

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