Eugenè Burnand (1850-1921) | Naturalist painter

Eugène Burnand was a prolific Swiss painter and illustrator from Moudon, Switzerland.

Born of prosperous parents who taught him to appreciate art and the countryside, he first trained as an architect but quickly realised his vocation was painting.

He studied art in Geneva and Paris then settled in Versailles.

In the course of his life he travelled widely and lived at various times in Florence, Montpellier, Seppey (Moudon) and Neuchâtel.

Claudio Bravo Camus | Hyperrealist painter

Claudio Bravo Camus (November 8, 1936 – June 4, 2011) was a Chilean hyperrealist painter.

He was greatly influenced by Renaissance and Baroque artists, as well as Surrealist painters such as Salvador Dalí.

He lived and worked in Tangier, Morocco, beginning in 1972. Bravo also lived in Chile, New York and Spain.

He was known mainly for his paintings of still lifes, portraits and packages, but he had also done drawings, lithographs, engraving and figural bronze sculptures.

Claudio Bravo Camus was born in Valparaíso, Chile.

Edward Willis Redfield | Impressionist painter

Among the New Hope impressionists painters, Edward Willis Redfield (1869-1965) was the most decorated, winning more awards than any American artist except John Singer Sargent.

Primarily a landscape painter, Redfield was acclaimed as the most "American" artist of the New Hope school because of his vigor and individualism. Redfield favored the technique of painting En Plein Air, that is, outdoors amidst nature.

Alejandro Decinti, 1973

Chilean-Italian painter Alejandro DeCinti is a painter born in Santiago de Chile.

He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the University of Chile. Since 2001 he is based in Spain.

He was awarded with the Scholarship for Academic Excellence in the 1991 admission process to Chilean universities.

First prize in the Arte en Vivo competition in 1994 and the Fundación Arte y Autores Contemporáneos postgraduate scholarship in 2001.

Chilean Art History and Sitemap

Chilean art refers to all kinds of visual art developed in Chile, or by Chileans, from the arrival of the Spanish conquerors to the modern day. It also includes the native pre-Columbian pictorial expression on modern Chilean territory.

Pre-Columbian art

Ceramics were the greatest artistic contribution of the northern peoples. These examples of Diaguita ceramics show this people's fascination with geometric figures.

Prehistoric painting in Chile, also called pre-Columbian Chilean painting, refers to any type of painting or painting technique used to represent objects or people during the period before the Spanish conquest.

Developed prior to the existence of written sources, study of this period is based on the material remains and vestiges of the cultures that developed.

Mario Irarràzabal | La Mano del Desierto / The Hand of the Desert, 1992