38 South American painter stubs

Mario Abreu was a Venezuelan artist known as the "master of magic objects".

Lewis Brian Adams was an English painter who spent most of his career in Venezuela. He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and exhibited there for a number of years. Why he went to Caracas is unknown, but it seems likely that it was to paint in a market where he would find less competition. He introduced a number of trends from English portraiture to the world of Venezuelan art.

Gilberto Almeida Egas was an Ecuadorian painter born in San Antonio de Ibarra, in Imbabura Province. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Quito from 1953-1957. His early work was in many media, especially paintings of buildings and views in old Quito; his later work concentrated on large black-and-white drawings, in a baroque, expressionistic, and dramatic style.

Urteaga Alvarado, Mario was a Peruvian painter. He originally worked as a painter, photographer and upon his return to Cajamarca from Lima he works as a school teacher, farming and journalist.

Félix Aráuz is an Ecuadorian painter. Aráuz is among the art circles of Enrique Tábara, Aníbal Villacís, José Carreño and Juan Villafuerte. In 1957, Aráuz began studying under César Andrade Faini at the School of Fine Arts. During his second year, his father died leaving Aráuz feeling nostalgic and isolated. Aráuz funneled his emotions into his work creating some of the most beautiful, heartfelt and dreamlike imagery to date. Both his use of color and his compositions are strong and designed to leave a lasting impression on the viewer. Aráuz's subjects usually include surreal flower arrangements, the innocence of children, faces, 'trees of life', landscapes and abstracts - all of which are created with a personal dreamlike aesthetic.

Arotxa, is a Uruguayan caricaturist.

Herminia Arrate Ramírez was a painter and First Lady of Chile as wife of President Carlos Dávila Espinoza.

Numa Ayrinhac was a French-Argentine artist. He was born in Espalion (France) in 1881 of Joseph Sixte Ayrinhac and Marie Eulalie Durand, and moved with his parents aged five to the new settlement of Pigüé, Saavedra, Argentina. He is famous for painting portraits of Eva and Juan Domingo Perón.

Juan Batlle Planas was an Argentine painter of Spanish origin belonging to the surrealist school, orienting in later years to romanticism. Many of his works, while obscure, were sombre in feeling, influenced by social unrest and economic and political problems in Argentina. In 1960 he was awarded the Premio Palanza de la Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes de Argentina. Batlle Planas was an influence on numerous Latin American painters, including Roberto Aizenberg. Fashion designer Dalila Puzzovio studied under him.

Saulo Benavente was an Argentine painter.

Gaspar Besares-Soraire was an Argentine painter, draughtsman, sculptor and professor of some renown during the first half of the 20th century.

Pablo Burchard was a Chilean painter. His father was German architect Teodoro Burchard Haeberle, who arrived in Chile around 1855, and introduced the Gothic style, and his mother was María (Sofía) Luisa Eggeling Metzger. He taught in the University of Chile's School of Fine Arts from 1932 to 1959, and he won the National Prize of Art of Chile in 1944.

Juan Calzadilla is a Venezuelan poet, painter, and art critic.

Victor Hugo 'Grillo' Demo is an Argentine artist.

Pedro Nel Gómez Agudelo was a Colombian engineer, painter, and sculptor, best known for his work as a muralist, and for starting, along with Santiago Martinez Delgado, the Colombian Muralist Movement, inspired by the Mexican movement that drew on nationalistic, social, and political messages as subjects.

Ramón Gómez Cornet was an Argentine painter. He was one of the forerunners of the modern Argentine painting.

Álvaro Guevara Reimers was a painter, based in London and loosely associated with the Bloomsbury set.

Legend Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas was a Bolivian painter who was a leader of the indigenous art movement during the first half of the 20th century.

Carlos María Herrera was a Uruguayan painter.

Washington Iza, (1947–present) is an Ecuadorian artist known chiefly for his radical surrealistic style of painting that contrasted sharply with more traditional styles used by fellow Ecuadorian painters such as Oswaldo Guayasamin, Eduardo Kingman and Bolivar Mena Franco.

Mamani Mamani is an Aymara artist from Bolivia. His work is significant in its use of Aymara indigenous tradition and symbols. His art has been exhibited around the world, including shows in Washington, D.C., Tokyo, Munich, China, Singapore, and London.

The Master of Calamarca was a Bolivian artist who created two series of angels painted on the walls of a Catholic church in Calamarca, Bolivia in the Department of La Paz. His works were stylistically close to earlier master Leonardo Flores from La Paz.

Arturo Pacheco Altamirano was a painter born in Chillán, Chile. He died in Santiago in 1978.

Alceu Ribeiro was a Uruguayan painter and sculptor.

Guillermo Roux is an Argentine painter known for his watercolors, collages and frescoes.

Braulio Salazar (1917–2008) was a Venezuelan painter.

Eduardo Schiaffino (1858-1935) was an Argentine painter, critic, intellectual and historian. A member of a group known as the Generation of '80, he founded the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires and sparked the development of painting in his country.

Ramón Silva was an Argentine painter of the Post-impressionist school.

Eduardo Sívori was an Argentine artist widely regarded as his country's first realist painter.

Luis Alberto Solari was a painter and engraver from Uruguay.

Thomas Jacques Somerscales was an English teacher, sailor, and landscape and marine painter. He is also considered a Chilean painter as he began his career as an artist there. Many of his landscapes evoke the region and many of his marine paintings feature notable events in Chilean naval history and have become patriotic national icons in that country.

Roberto Spinosa is an Ecuadorian painter.

Pedro León Maximiano María Subercaseaux Errázuriz was a Chilean painter; son of the painter and diplomat Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña. He painted many portraits about events from the history of Chile, such as the Crossing of the Andes. He painted portraits of the history of Argentina requested during the Argentina Centennial. He married Elvira Lyon Otaégui in 1907, but the Pope later annulled their marriage so that they could both get into religious orders.

Jorge Velarde is a Contemporary Latin American painter from Ecuador. Velarde has been drawing and painting since he was a child. At the age of 15 Velarde knew that he was meant to be a painter.

Armando Villegas was a Peruvian-born Colombian painter, whose career spanned nearly six decades.

Erwin de Vries was a Surinamese painter and sculptor.

Rodolfo Zagert is an Argentinian painter and architect. He first studied art and architecture in Buenos Aires and later continued his studies in (Germany), where he got a scholarship. In 1991 he moved to Palma de Mallorca, his architectural work focusing on historic building restoration. For one project, the restoration of a sixteenth century palace, he was awarded the Premio Ciudad de Palma in 1999. In his art work he uses mixed techniques, on paper or canvas.

Marcos Zapata, also called Marcos Sapaca Inca, was a Peruvian painter, born in Cuzco. He was one of the last members of the Cuzco School, an art center in which Spanish painters taught native students to paint religious works. Zapata introduced elements from his own lands into his paintings. For instance, his 1753 rendering of the Last Supper shows Jesus and his disciples gathering around a table laid with guinea pig and glasses of chicha.