In 1960, when she was already a nationally recognized artist, deserving of important prizes and distinctions, and with an extensive career as a professor, she received a scholarship from the French Government to study in Paris.īetween 19 she was commissioned by the University of Chile to continue her research and studies on kinetic art in Paris. In 1951 she was appointed assistant to the Chair of Drawing and Painting at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile In 1955 she taught a watercolor course at the University's Summer Season Schools, that same year she was appointed Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting in the initiation courses of Fine Arts, being in 1957 Full-time Interim Professor, of the same chair. In 1948 she worked as a Drawing Teacher at Dunalastair College In 1950 he organized and created, together with other professors, an Academy of Plastic Arts in Providencia. In 1944 he studied mural painting with the artist Laureano Guevara and was his assistant in the realization of murals in the Ciudad del Niño in the commune of La Cisterna in Santiago. Matilde Prezabstract artnon-objective artkinetic artart museumarte cineticoart reseachconstructivismopartgeometric abstractionmodern artart collectorart inv. In 1939 she entered the School of Fine Arts, where she was a student of Pablo Burchard and Jorge Caballero. He began his artistic training in 1938, when he took private painting classes with the teacher Pedro Reszka. Discover all artworks by Matilde Perez (Chilean, 1920) on MutualArt along with auctions, exhibitions and articles featuring the artist.

She walked inside and outside the painting, going through the mural, the sculpture, the installation or any other expression that was considered necessary at the time. Her work has also received numerous awards, the BBC called her 'one of the most acclaimed women in the international art world'.Born in Santiago in 1916 and passed away in 2014. Posted Februby Youri Messen-Jaschin in art cinétique, arte óptica, arte óptico, arte óptico y cinético, arte cinético, arte moderna, cinétisme, cinetism,. Matilde Perez has realized more than fifty art exhibitions in the world during the years 20, including El Ojo Latino, Colección Luciano Benetton at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago (2008), Exposición Arte en América at the Cultural Center of the Palacio La Moneda (2010- 2011), Mavi la Colección at the Museum of Visual Arts in Santiago (2011), and her participation in the Official Hall of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile in 1939, 1943, 1944, 1947. Matilde Perez's work experiments with the possibilities of creating virtual movement through optical illusion, based on the investigation of the visual effects of abstract forms and the use of color. It was in 1960, when she moved to Paris, France that she began to take an interest in kinetic art, particularly the work of Victor Vasarely. Matilde Pérez Cerda (1916 - 2014) is a Chilean visual artist and pioneer of modern and kinetic art in Chile.

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