Damian Tirado, 1960: "Envie de chic?"

Damian Tirado is a Venezuelan painter and sculptor, currently living in France.

Passionate about drawing and painting, he entered the School of Fine arts Cristobal de Rojas in Caracas.

He began his career as a designer and make up artist in the world of fashion and theatre, and as an illustrator for several big brands, collaboration among others with fashion designer Guy Melliet.

Damian Tirado, 1960 | Fashion Designer /Sculptor

Damian Tirado was born in Caracas, Venezuela. An autodidact, Triado has been passionate about painting and drawing since childhood.

He continued his studies at the school of Fine Arts "Cristobal de Rojas" in Caracas, and then began his career as a freelance visual artist. He has worked in theater world as a decorative painter and a makeup artist.

Angel Ramiro Sanchez, 1974 | Figurative painter

Venezuelan painter Angel Ramiro Sanchez was born in 1974 in Maracaibo, Venezuela. At age six was accepted with full scholarship into the Instituto the Niños Cantores del Zulia, school for musically gifted children.

At age fourteen he began five years of apprenticeship with the realist painter, Abdon J. Romero, an eminent specialist in murals for churches and public buildings.

In 1993, a study grant from Mgr. Gustavo Ocando Yamarte, Founder the Niños Cantores, enabled him to travel to Florence, Italy, where he studied at the renowned Accademia di Belle Arti, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1997.

Carlos León Salazar, 1968 | Watercolour painter

Venezuelan painter Carlos León-Salazar was born in Caracas.

"I am a lawyer by profession, in relation to the arts - self-taught.

For me, art is the need to accompany me since childhood, is a way to express himself, or rather, to find himself through him, as a very intimate and personal appearance, to find himself through art, music and literature. In short, I do creative work, because I like it because I love it.

And when I discovered watercolor, all last time I do it because plastic watercolor is consistent with the sensations and feelings that I experience".

Maria Gamundí, 1952 | Figurative sculptor

Maria Gamundi was born in Caracas, Venezuela.

She studied at thè Pratt Institute of New York and the Scuola del Libro of Urbino Italy, between 1970-73.

She lives and works in Versilia, dividing her lime between Monteggiori and Pietrasanta.

Since 1973 she has held important personal exhibitions in Italy, Europe, the United States and Latin America.

Armando Barrios | Cubist / Abstract painter

Venezuelan Artist Armando Barrios (1920-1999) was born in Caracas in 1920. He entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Caracas in 1932. During Rómulo Gallegos management as education minister in the government of Eleazar Lopez Contreras, the institution was reformed in 1936 and changed its name to the School of Visual Arts and Applied Arts of Caracas. Antonio Edmundo Monsanto and other leading painters of the generation of the Fine Arts were called to direct and integrate their teaching staff.