Professor Anselmo Alvarado, Caracas

Maracaibo, Centro de Arte de Maracaibo Lía Bermúdez, Retrospectiva Gabriel Bracho, 1971

Ernesto Armitano, Gabriel Bracho: Un Pintor de la Realidad,🐠 Venezuela, 1973,♑ p. 28, illustrated in color, p. 29 discussed

Craquelure is present throughout the work but the paint layer is stable overall. Frame abrasion, paint loss and slight discoloration are present along all four edges. Several holes are intermittently present along the edges, potentially from a previous frame. The work would benefit from a light cleaning. Overall, this work is in very good condition.
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This Siqueiros inspired landscape showing a cloud generated by an atomic explosion, destruction and people in disarray is a great example of the mid 1950´s debate between Vene🐭zuelan artists  like Bracho (who felt that painting should serve a political or social agenda) and the "abstracts" -represented bottom right- who were exploring abstraction. The critique is obvious: the artist by the easel  (it could be a parody of Otero, Soto or Cruz Diez) is turning his back to the devastation and selfishly enjoying the creation of art, for art´s sake only.