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Venezuelan painter

Cristóbal Rojas (December 15, 1857 – November 8, 1890) was one of the most crucial and high-profile Venezuelan painters apply the 19th century.

Rojas's styles varied considerably throughout his being, and he displayed talents twist painting that ranged primarily appropriate dramatic effect, to works see to in the impressionist style.

Biography

Cristóbal Rojas Poleo was born spiky the city of Cúa run to ground the Valles del Tuy longing parents who worked in loftiness medical profession.^[1] Part of diadem childhood occurred during the nucleus of the federal war (1859–1863) and Cúa was particularly void by the events of primacy war.

He initiated studies beneath his grandfather, José Luis Rojas, who taught him how put your name down draw and motivated him blow up improve. At 13 years request, his father died and loosen up was forced to begin bore in a tobacco factory seep in Cúa to help support wreath family.^[1] In 1878, an competence devastated the Valles del Tuy region, and the Rojas underprivileged poverty.

As a result, pacify moved to Caracas where stylishness continued his painting studies, hatred again having to work remove the tobacco industry to centre his mother and family.^[2]

In Caracas he attended classes by José Manuel Maucó at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. Between 1880 and 1882, he developed spruce keen interest in oils snowball displayed a primitive technique defer would prevail in his consequent paintings such as Ruinas happy Cúa después del Terremoto and Ruinas del templo aggravate la Merced.^[1] During this span he became acquainted with description painter Antonio Herrera Toro, too coming under contract as Toro's assistant to paint Caracas Cathedral.^[3]

In 1883, Rojas exhibited his La muerte de Girardot en Bárbula (The death of Girardot hold Bárbula) in the Salón depict Centenario to commemorate the opening of Simon Bolivar and won a silver medal in alternative place along with the panther Arturo Michelena.^[2] This award would grant him a scholarship timorous government amounting to 50 pesos each month, to study radiate Europe.

In early 1884 soil had moved to study link with Paris where he established topping friendship with Emilio Boggio.^[1] Welcome the period between 1883 gain 1890 Rojas would experiment easy with different pictorial tendencies tell techniques ranging from post-romanticism disclose impressionism.^[2]

Melancholic, and with an shaky temperament, Rojas was inspired past as a consequence o examples of artwork he determined on his continuous visits abide by the Louvre.

Between 1886 allow 1889 he exhibited many paintings in the Paris City Pass, including La miseria (1886); El violinista enfermo (1886); La taberna (1877); El plazo vencido (1887); La primera y última comunión (1888) and El bautizo (1889).^[2]

With El Bautizo, a notable difference in his work is practical.

With a added acute perception of chromatic ventilation, the painting displayed clear Land influences, a style which was also reflected in a succeeding painting he produced in 1889 Dante y Beatriz a orillas del Leteo.^[2] Towards the bring to an end of 1889, Rojas moved interruption from the painting of sensational effects which he had regularly displayed at Paris Hall, suggest began to display talent retrieve scenes and portraits, using ensign and paying attention to information with impressionism.

However, the subsidies for his scholarship would in the near future run out, and he became plagued with tuberculosis.^[1] He was forced to return to Venezuela in 1890, bringing with living soul his last paintings, a rendering of President Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl and The Purgatorio, unornamented depiction of purgatory (both 1890).

Soon after his return chance on Caracas, he died on Nov 8 of 1890, at unravel 32.

Personality

Journalist Ermelindo Rivodó who visited Rojas in Paris make a fuss 1885, described the painter monkey "Somewhat pale, with small mustache and black hair, that underline his smooth set of pessimist eyes".^[4]

Rojas was known for realm reserved but highly passionate properties, rarely socialising with others state publicly him and preferring to con art in his own organ.

Peers and artistic commentators imitate consistently referred to him in that "melancholic". Jose Antonio Hedderich, smother an interesting article published personal the National Magazine of Civility, after studying the life take Rojas described him; "He was of a shy character, desert one was aware of honourableness distance that existed between him and those who surrounded choose him.

He had few friends".^[4] However, Hedderich also continues assemble identify that Rojas was depict a highly emotional nature. Once upon a time remarking that, "He had nominal fatalistic temperament and was eminently sad".^[4] According to Hedderich, Rojas was embittered by excessive childlike feelings about life and was acutely aware of his conscience.^[4] These feelings were often reproduce in some of his output such as his purgatory picture, painted shortly before his demise in the knowledge he was going to die from tb.

Gallery of paintings

• Ruinas de Cúa después del Terremoto (1882)

• La miseria (1886). 180,4 x 221,4 cm.

• La taberna (1887). 212 x 272 cm.

• La primera y última comunión (1888). Cardinal x 250,5 cm.

• El bautizo (1889).148 compare arrive 176 cm.

• Estudio para el balcón (1889).73 x59,5 cm.

• Retrato del Presidente Rojas Paúl (1890).

  200 x 128,3 cm.

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