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Mateo Manaure

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[[File:Museo Mateo Manaure.jpg|thumb|Museo Mateo Manaure]]
'''Mateo Manaure''' (18 October 1926–19 March 2018)<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> was a Venezuelan [[List of modern artists|modern artist]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/37aIAuN Mateo Manaure: El poeta de la Pintura Venezolana del siglo XX.]</ref> In Venezuela he is considered a master of [[abstractionism]], and is known for his works in the [[University City of Caracas]] and for creating the largest glass mural in the world.<ref name="elpaís">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

==Biography==
[[File:UCV_2015-044a_Bimural_de_Mateo_Manaure,_1954.JPG|thumb|Mateo Manaure's bimural at the [[Central University of Venezuela]].]]
Mateo Manaure was born on 18 October 1926 in [[Uracoa Municipality, Monagas|Uracoa]], in [[Monagas]] state. Between 1941 and 1946 he studied at the Escuela de Artes Plástics y Artes Aplicadas under the instruction of . Here, he studied graphic arts in the workshop of Pedro Ángel González, to whom he was an assistant. He also began participating in the artist salon of the Museo Bellas Artes in Caracas. In 1947 he won the inaugural [[National Prize of Plastic Arts of Venezuela|National Prize for Plastic Arts]] and traveled to [[Paris]]. He made a trip back to Caracas the next year to work with the Taller Libre de Arte, before returning to Paris in 1950 and being involved with the artistic movement of [[Los disidentes]].

He returned to Caracas in 1952 to found the Galería Cuatro Muros with Carlos González Bogan, and gave the first exhibition of [[abstract art]] in Venezuela. He also began collaborating with architect [[Carlos Raúl Villanueva]], first on the [[University City of Caracas]], to which he contributed [[List of artworks in University City of Caracas#Mateo Manaure|26 works of art]] and was "promoted" to art supervisor of the campus, and then to other public spaces like the redesign of the neighborhood of [[23 de Enero]].

For the next several years, Manaure continued to develop within abstract art, which made up the Venezuelan artistic avant-garde of that time. He later returned to more traditional graphic art forms, especially [[lithography]], though still did some work in abstract expression. In 1984 he was named President of the Asociación Venezolana de Artistas Plásticos. In 2009 the Mateo Manaure Museum of Contemporary Art was opened in Maturín, Monagas.

Manaure died on 19 March 2018, in Caracas.<ref name="elpaís">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of artworks in University City of Caracas]]

==References==


==External links==




[[Category:People from Monagas]]
[[Category:20th-century Venezuelan painters]]


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