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Modesto Brocos Y Gomes

Modesto Brocos Y Gomes (1852 - 1936) was active/lived in Brazil.  Modesto Brocos Y Gomes is known for Portraits, landscapes, genre themes, engravings, and woodcuts.

Modesto Brocos was a Galician artist who was active in Brazil and obtained Brazilian nationality. He studied at the Academia de Bellas Artes de La Coruña and later at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro. He also studied in Paris, Madrid, and Rome. Brocos was a painter of portraits, landscapes, and genre themes, an engraver, draughtsman, and writer. 

He popularized the technique of woodcut in Brazil and produced innumerable etched portraits and paintings of Brazilian genre and historical subjects. He published writings on art theory and produced his only work of fiction, "Journey to Mars". He returned to Brazil in 1890 and obtained a teaching post at the National School of Fine Arts, of which he eventually became director. He carried out important work as a painter and treatise writer. 

He maintained links with his native Spain and even participated in the National Exhibitions of Fine Arts. He is currently represented at the Museo Nacional de Bell   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1140 characters.]  Artist bio

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