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CLAUDIO NELSON BRAVO CAMUS

On this day of 8th November, Claudio Nelson Bravo Camus (November 8, 1936 – June 4, 2011) was born.

He was a Chilean hyperrealist painter.

He was influenced by Renaissance and Baroque artists, Surrealist painters such as Salvador Dalí, Diego Velázquez for his light effects, Francisco de Zurbarán’s cloth studies, Juan Sánchez Cotán’s still lives, Juan van der Hamen who popularized still life painting in Madrid, and Luis Egidio Meléndez who had great technical skill in using light to depict texture.

His subjects were mainly paintings of still life, portraits and, packages, and, also done drawings, lithographs, engraving and, figural bronze sculptures.

Bravo painted many prominent figures in society, including Caudillo Franco of Spain, President Ferdinand Marcos and First Lady Imelda Marcos of the Philippines and, Malcolm Forbes.

Bravo, son of a successful businessman who owned a ranch. He left the family ranch to join the Colegio San Ignacio in Santiago, Chile, where he excelled in choir, literature and music. In order to raise his grades in math, physics or chemistry, he would give his teacher a portrait. The prefect, Father Dussuel, noticed his self-taught artistic ability and paid for him to study art in the studio of Miguel Venegas Cifuentes in Santiago. Eventually, Bravo's father granted him permission to take the classes and took over the responsibility of paying for them. Bravo studied under Venegas from the age of 11 to 20 and it was the only formal art training he ever received.

At 21, Bravo began doing portraits in Concepción, Chile. He saved his earnings he sailed to Paris from where he travelled to Madrid and established himself. There was even a dress designer, Balenciaga, whose dresses had a Renaissance quality to them. Bravo made women of nobility purchase one of Balenciaga's works before he agreed to do their portrait. A year and two months after his arrival, he was already painting Francisco Franco's daughter.

In 1968, Bravo received an invitation from President Marcos of the Philippines to come and paint him and his wife, Imelda Marcos, as well as members of the high society.

In 1969, Bravo met Melvin Blake and Frank Purnell who were in Spain collecting art. They encouraged him to move to the United States and his works were highly appreciated by the art lovers.

Bravo moved to Tangier, Morocco in 1972.

He hadn't intended on staying in Morocco, but it was there that he found the colors and light he had been searching for. Bravo considered what he was able to paint "...symphonies of color." Morocco quickly became the place that he considered to be his home.

He stayed in Morocco till his death in 2011.