Nice individuals all through the historical past of mankind have been cheerfully labeled as “loopy.” Evidently what the frequent individuals can not perceive or comprehend is cheerfully labeled as “insanity.” Antonio Fernández, the person with the ring, one of many best artists that the state of Trujillo has ever produced, was labeled by his associates who have been promoting greens within the previous Municipal Market on twelfth Road as if he had “a screw unfastened” due to his robust character.
A highschool director closed the doorways on him
In 1963, at some point, Antonio Fernández enthusiastically went to the Rafael Rangel Excessive College to donate a sculpture to our faculty. When the director noticed the work, he stated to himself: “rattling, however this sculpture is ugly” and with out “coronary heart in his chest” he informed the well-known sculptor that the establishment wouldn’t settle for the donation… The artist grabbed his sculpture and left the best way he got here. He arrived dwelling and in minutes completed it with a sledgehammer.
I can think about what this new highschool principal should have thought when he learn the large headlines within the press: “Antonio Fernández from Trujillo, “The Man with the Ring”, gained the Nationwide Prize for Fashionable Tradition, as one of the best Venezuelan sculptor of the 12 months 1998.”
From peasant to nationwide artist
Antonio Fernández, the person with the ring, was born within the El Corozo hamlet, in Escuque, again in 1922, days when the dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, “the boy was not dying in his stomach”… His mother and father have been Ana María Franco and Ramón Fernández, humble farmers. Antonio’s father was a superb bricklayer who helped within the building of quite a few properties that we discover at this time as colonial relics within the “Land of Clouds.”
From that have along with his bricklayer father, “The person with the ring” He realized tips on how to use cement, sand, stone, rebar and wooden in his inventive sculptures that might lead him to develop into a nationwide artist of common tradition… Antonio, who was not but 15 years previous, proudly confirmed off his first sculpture made from advantageous clay. The doll was the face of a landowner who was well-known for the abuses he dedicated towards the humblest individuals, benefiting from his financial energy.
The landowner Don Ramón turned offended when he obtained from the “cock-sucking” individuals of the time the “chalequeo” itself for its resemblance to the “doll” created by the “Man of the ring”. He determined to have him imprisoned, and that was when Antonio Fernández’s father intervened, who was the bricklayer who mounted the offended landowner’s espresso roasting patios. The artist was fortunate sufficient to not find yourself in a nauseating dungeon.
Antonio Fernández stood out as a painter with a novel type. As a sculptor there was nobody equal to him. He gave life to cement along with his artist’s ingenuity. He stood out working artistically with wooden. Immediately his works are exhibited in massive galleries within the nation.
My soul buddy…
There have been many alternatives that I shared in nice conversations with “The Man with the Ring” in his humble room in Carvajal, a privilege, as a result of the artist didn’t obtain everybody. In his solitude as a decided bohemian he was accompanied by one or one other canine with out pedigree, the chickens gave a rustic ambiance to the home, whereas a rooster was the enjoyment of this distinguished artist of the nation.
They killed the “Man with the Ring”
One morning, the world of common tradition in Trujillo was shaken by the unhappy information of the homicide of Antonio Fernández. The criminals who broke into his home, maybe crazed by medicine, and never discovering the cash they have been on the lookout for, attacked the defenseless artist, who couldn’t bear the mistreatment and died from the beating he obtained.
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2024-06-30 16:28:23