On January 13 of each year, Venezuela celebrates the Day of the National Artist, a commemoration that is carried out by decree in order to recognize the work done by those who, inspired, create forms, sounds, colors, letters, movements and textures.
This festivity was born as a strategic plan promoted by the Venezuelan government to pay homage to the current cultivators of the country, as well as to promote those who are not present today, and who through their works have left their mark in history and in the Venezuelan culture.
This date seeks to recognize the labor and work of those who are always in contact with the country’s social realities and seek to express them by obeying their own patterns of beauty and aesthetics.
The first indications of Venezuelan art come from ceramics and indigenous cultures since 2000 years, represented in vessels and figures. The painting had its beginning towards the end of the colonial period and its heyday begins with the arrival of modern art, beginning in 1850 and ending in the mid-1950s.
Painting, dance, theater, sculpture, drawing, music, literature and architecture are some of the artistic manifestations of the human being.
Paying homage to the men and women dedicated to art, has the purpose of exalting the importance of art within our society, the daily, constant and disinterested work of those who inspire the creation of sounds, shapes, colors, letters, the movements and textures of our country.
The Ministry of People’s Power of Economy, Finance and Foreign Trade sends its most sincere recognition and congratulations to all the artists of the country, who with their talent day by day enhance Venezuelan culture.
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