Artist and painter, the work of Armando Reverón, made largely in the Central Coast of Venezuela, captures and transmits all the luminosity of the tropics. He was an outstanding member of the Academy of Fine Arts, along with figures such as Manuel Cabré, Antonio Edmundo Monsanto and César Prieto. In 1904 he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts, where he has as teachers Antonio Herrera Toro, Emilio Mauri and Pedro Zerpa.
In 1911 after receiving a scholarship he traveled to Spain and went to Barcelona where he entered the School of Arts and Crafts. He returned to Venezuela in the middle of 1915. In 1916, Reverón paints outdoors his first resolved landscapes within a blue tonality. Shortly after he moved to La Guaira where he lives to give private classes of drawing and painting.
Reverón adopts primitive habits and disconnected from the city developing a deeper perception of nature and this led him to employ a method to paint, as well as adopt procedures and materials that suited his desire to represent the atmosphere of the landscape under the effects of glare produced by direct sunlight. In addition, he created chromatic values and devised new supports, using local elements.
In 1953 he worked with an effort for an exhibition that had been announced by the Museum of Fine Arts, when he died during his stay in the San Jorge sanatorium. After suffering a psychotic crisis the second in its history.
