(b. 1889 - 1954, Venezuela).
In 1912, while in art school, Reveron received a scholarship to study the Spanish masters in Spain and when he returned he joined the Circulo de Bellas Artes- a group which explored the ideas of Impressionism, Futurism and the emerging Cubism. The artist was officially diagnosed as a schizophrenic and twice institutionalized, yet seems to have worked only when in a state of lucidity. Historically, Reveron's work has always been catalogued as painting and categorized into a blue, a white, and a sepia period. He was seen as a post-impressionist who was concerned with light and a groundbreaker in Latin America. This view has been challenged by the recent show, Armando Reveron: The Place of Objects, which opened in the Galería de Arte Nacional of Caracas, traveling in 2003 to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Displayed in the retrospective exhibit are several paintings as well as musical instruments the artist built in the 1940' -soli
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