Eduardo Chicharro Y Briones - Artist Info

About Eduardo Chicharro Y Briones

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Eduardo Chicharro Briones
  • Biography

    Painter and poet, one of the main theoreticians of Postism together with Carlos Edmundo de Ory and Silvano Sernesi, he was the son of Eduardo Chicharro y Agüera, who had been the chamber painter of King Alfonso XIII. In 1912 his father was appointed director of the Spanish Academy in Rome and the family moved to the Italian capital, where they remained until 1925.

    Eduardo Chicharro Briones returned to Spain to do his military service, and in 1928 he returned to Rome to enjoy a scholarship from the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts, remaining in the Italian capital until 1935.

    During these years he came into contact with the surrealist painter Gregorio Prieto, with whom he carried out a series of artistic experiments th...

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