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Few artists in Venezuela have the fortune of the affection and the overwhelming admiration of the city that saw them born, like the one expressed by Barquisimeto and the Barquisimetanos by the maestro Jesús Armando Villalón.
Born in the capital of the state Lara on July 6, 1945 into an emerging middle-class family, the now renowned landscaper ventured into the visual arts as a father of a family and after having built a solid economic and employment stability, thanks to your business skills.
However, these well-deserved achievements, the product of his work and effort to ensure the well-being of his family, did not dampen his deepest youthful desires to be a painter. Around the age of 30, in 1974, he began his formal preparation in the plastic arts by enrolling in the art workshop of the master Ramón Díaz Lugo, one of the most consistent disciples of the master Rafael Monasterios, who is considered part of the precursors of the landscape movement in Venezuela at the beginning of the 20th century.
Almost immediately the young Villalón showed extraordinary qualities to recreate the landscape. Disciplined in his lessons, but without compromising his plastic convictions, he quickly managed to define his own style characterized by the strong and short stroke, widely inspired by the Impressionist masters of Europe, whose work he had the opportunity to study in depth thanks to the indissoluble support of his wife Ysabel, who along with her two young children, did not hesitate to embark with the artist on his journey to complement his artistic training in the old continent.
In 1981, the master Villalón arrived in the Spanish capital, where he took drawing and painting classes at the prestigious Arjona Studio and at the Serigraphy and Engraving Workshop in Madrid. By then, the work of the "Pintor del Turbio" was widely known in the main cities of Venezuela: Caracas, Valencia, Maracay, Maracaibo and of course his native Barquisimeto, where he had conquered prestigious galleries and exhibition centers.
But once again, his natural dissatisfaction led him away from the comfort of fame, to continue his insatiable search for excellence, a journey that had begun in Spain with the meticulous study of the Impressionists, especially the Iberian painters Joaquín Sorolla and Joaquín Mir, whose work a captive confesses during this stage of his life. The instructive experience in Europe was completed by his brief but intense passage through Paris, London, Rome, Munich and Amsterdam, always in the footsteps of the great masters of universal art.
Again in Venezuela, in the mid-1980s, he managed to mature his line. And after arduous inquiries about the shades of light in the successive 30 years, the master Villalón manages to establish himself as an award-winning creator of atmospheres. His palette is as chromatic as it is genuine, which is why it was quickly attacked by critics and collectors with the title: "Painter of the Mist."
As expected, the overwhelming scenes of indecipherable firmaments or the intoxicating accumulation of sensations generated by its closed spaces, did not take long to arouse the interest of galleries, museums and exhibition halls throughout the country. The conquests of these spaces and in the specific artistic confrontations in which he decided to participate, because he never saw himself as a prize hunter, vindicated the landscape in the national plastic scene and beyond his latitudes.
A restless and persevering researcher, the master Villalón constantly innovates and does not settle easily. His work is the result of a disciplined, formal and planned work that has guaranteed him the plastic coherence necessary to be exalted as a Master.
His four decades of experience make him a benchmark of national contemporary art and an ambassador of the Venezuelan landscape today, when his work is widely desired and valued in other countries, mainly the United States.
- Creator:Armando Villalon (1945, Spanish)
- Dimensions:Height: 23.6 in (59.95 cm)Width: 31.4 in (79.76 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Atlanta, GA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU155528625872
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1970 jean Tannous graduates from the national superior institute of fine arts of the university of lebanon. he teaches at the same institute in 1974 and 1975.
1976 fleeing the lebanon war upon his arrival in paris, Tannous obtains the certificate of the commission of professionalism for artists & intellectual workers.
affiliated with the maison des artistes, he works at the place du tertre doing portraits for tourists. during this period, Tannous masters all painting techniques, thanks to his years of experience spent in european museums doing copies of great masters.
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finally Tannous settled down in paris. he participates in the creation of a fresco for the ratp in the subway, the spiral of the abbesses.
he collaborates with the régie immobilière de la ville de paris and the mairie de paris. under this banner he will participate in several projects in belgium (ypres, ostende, ghent and bruges among others).
in sandnes, norway, he contributes to the realization of another fresco, le pont de paris.
the cartier and baume & mercier companies appeal to the talents of Tannous for their seminars.
1977 with the support of günther kaphammel, the famous german watercolourist, Tannous receives an invitation to exhibit in braunschweig at the jaeschke gallery.
this is the beginning of his career in germany. Tannous collaborates with karstadt for a long time. he creates many portraits of celebrities that pose for him, such as rudi cerne, dr volker schmidt, herbert paschen and helmut marmulla.
1982 in paris, jimmy carter poses for tannous. the artist carefully keeps the thank-you letter that the former us president sends him. Tannous also portrays the former president of the ivory coast, his excellence félix houphouët-boigny and the sultan oman qabus ibn saïd.
1984 after a long period of research, Tannous discovers a new way to protect his artistic creations by covering them with an innovative varnish which quickly becomes his signature.
the artist also excels in sculpture with the realization of busts.
1986 Tannous wins first prize in a painting contest held by l’île des impressionnistes. the winning work is acquired by the fournaise museum.
1987 karstadt-recklinghausen surprises the artist with a jubiläum for their ten-year collaboration.
1988 Tannous designed the entirety of the bang & olufsen home in parly 2 (chesnay-versailles).
1991 the artist founds and presides over carré ouvert, an official association of professional artists. it will be very active at the mitsukoshi gallery in paris for 9 years, performing, among other things, a decor of parisian cafés in trompe-l’oeil.
1992 carré ouvert organizes an event in carroz d'arâches with québecois artists, such as sylvain cousineau, suzelle levasseur, hanibal srouji and michel madore.
the same year, paravision, chaired by raphaël berdugo, now known as europacorp, sponsors Tannous by providing him a large workshop for 8 years.
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1997 france-okinawa elects Tannous vice-president of their association. this organization promotes relationships between france and japan. it brings okinawa’s kumi odori ballet to paris.
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