The Arts Faculty, University of Chile, is an academic discipline within at the University of Chile, which is located in the capital city of Santiago. Within the Arts Faculty the following departments are represented: visual arts, dance, music, sound, theatre, and arts theory; which occupy three buildings on campus.
Pedro Francisco Lira Rencoret was a Chilean painter and art critic, who organized exhibitions that led to the establishment of the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. He is best known for his eclectic portraits of women.
Manuel Antonio Caro Olavarría was a Chilean painter and is classed among Chile's best-loved artists. The son of Victorino Caro y Cárcamo and Asunción de Olavarría y Sierpe, he was named Caro Olavarría. The first Chilean student to attend the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Caro's body of work included portraits and scenes of everyday life, and earned him high honors and international recognition.
Chilean art refers to all kinds of visual art developed in Chile, or by Chileans, from the arrival of the Spanish conquerors to the modern day. It also includes the native pre-Columbian pictorial expression on modern Chilean territory.
Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma, was one of Chile's best-known painters and one of the four artists known as the Great Chilean Masters.
Alberto Valenzuela Llanos, was one of Chile's greatest painters and one of the four Great Chilean Masters, along with Pedro Lira, Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma and Juan Francisco González. He was a landscape painter and left an estimated 1,000 paintings. Highlights of his work include paintings of the snow-topped mountains in France and views of Paris.
Samy Mauricio Benmayor Benmayor is a Chilean painter who formed part of the Generation of '80 movement.
Carlos Eduardo Maturana Piña, better known by his artistic pseudonym Bororo, is Chilean artist born in Santiago, Chile, on November 10, 1953. Along with Samy Benmayor, Omar Gatica, Matías Pinto D'Aguiar and Ismael Frigerio among others, he formed part of Chilean art’s 80s Generation. Bororo was his childhood nickname.
Miguel Antonio Smith Irisarri was a Chilean landscape painter, engraver, caricaturist and art teacher.
Onofre Jarpa Labra was a Chilean landscape painter in the Romantic style, and an essayist on various artistic topics.
Cosme San Martín Lagunas was a Chilean painter and the first Chilean-born Director of the Academy of Painting.
Juan Mochi or, in Italian, Giovanni Mochi was an Italian painter who spent sixteen years as a Professor in Chile and influenced the artists who came to be known as the Great Chilean Masters.
Aurora Mira Mena (1863–1939) was a Chilean painter. Together with her elder sister Magdalena, she was one of the earliest recognized female painters not only in Chile but in the whole of Latin America. She was also one of the first women to graduate from the Santiago School of Painting.
Magdalena Mira Mena (1859–1930) was a Chilean painter and sculptor. Together with her younger sister Aurora, she was one of the earliest recognized female painters not only in Chile but in the whole of Latin America. She was also one of the earliest women to study art at the Santiago School of Painting.
Alejandro Ciccarelli Manzoni, originally Alessandro Ciccarelli was an Italian-born Chilean painter and educator. He was the first Director of the Academy of Painting in Santiago, Chile.
José Miguel Blanco Gavilán was a Chilean sculptor, illustrator and writer.
Ernst Sigismund Kirchbach, or Ernesto Kirchbach was a German history and portrait painter, who served as Director of the Academy of Painting.
Judith Alpi was a Chilean painter and teacher, who was known for her work in portraiture. A member of Generación del 13, she exhibited nationally and internationally and was awarded prizes for her works. She produced several highly-regarded portraits of the artist Laura Rodig.
Lucía Ximena Cristi Moreno was a Chilean post-impressionist and figurative expressionist painter. Alongside the artists Olga Morel and Aída Poblete, she is recognized for her work to convey "the worlds and perspectives of feminine expression."
Dora Puelma Francino de Fuenzalida was a Chilean painter, sculptor and writer who belonged to the Generación del 13. Her work was characterized by "fidelidad a la tradición pictórica del paisaje y las técnicas de la representación que siempre defendió por sobre las tendencias abstractas que se impusieron en su época", which is why her work was included within Chilean pictorial naturalism that she approached mainly through the use of oil and watercolor techniques.
