The Art of CLAUDIO BRAVO
The Art of CLAUDIO BRAVO (part 2)
Claudio Bravo was born in Valparaiso, Chile, on November 8, 1936 and died on June 4, 2011 in Taroudant, Morocco. He was a hyperrealist, largely self-taught painter, greatly influenced by Renaissance, Baroque artists and Surrealist painters such as Salvador Dalí. He was also influenced by his adopted country, Morocco, where he lived and worked for over thirty years. The Moroccan people as well as the country's textiles, pottery, architecture, plants, and flowers form the subjects of many of Bravo's exquisite paintings and drawings. Suffused with the special light of Morocco, they testify to a grand lineage of artistic inspiration and exploration between Western and Arabic worlds. But along with dazzling technique and refined beauty, Bravo's paintings also manifest a transcendental spirituality and an exceptional fidelity to both the magnificent and the homely.
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