The National Prize of Art of Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

, was created on November 9, 1942. It was awarded yearly since 1944 and alternated the mention among Painting

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

 or Sculpture

Sculpture

Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

, Music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

 and Theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

. In 1992, it was replaced for the national prizes of Plastic Arts, Musical Arts and Arts of the Representation and Audiovisual, respectively.

List of prizewinners with the National Prize of Art:

• 1944 - Pablo Burchard Eggeling - Painting
• 1945 - Pedro Humberto Allende
  Pedro Humberto Allende
  Pedro Humberto Allende Sarón , was one of the most important Chilean composers of the twentieth century. He obtained the prestigious Premio Nacional de Arte in 1945.- Biography :...
  
   - Music
• 1946 - Alejandro Flores Pinaud - Theatre
• 1947 - Pedro Reszka Moreau - Painting
• 1948 - Enrique Soro Barriga - Music
• 1949 - Rafael Frontaura de la Fuente - Theatre
• 1950 - Camilo Mori Serrano
  Camilo Mori
  Camilo Mori Serrano was a painter and a founder of the Grupo Montparnasse....
  
   - Painting
• 1951 - Domingo Santa Cruz Wilson - Music
• 1952 - Pedro de la Barra - Theatre
• 1953 - José Perotti Ronzoni - Sculpture
• 1954 - Próspero Bisquertt Prado - Music
• 1955 - Américo Vargas Vergara - Theatre
• 1956 - José Caracci Vignati - Painting
• 1957 - Alfonso Leng
  Alfonso Leng
  Alfonso Leng was a post-romantic composer of classical music and dentist. He was born in Santiago, Chile. He wrote the first important symphonic work in Chilean tradition, "La Muerte de Alcino", a symphonic poem inspired by the novel of Pedro Prado...
  
   - Music
• 1958 - Jorge Quevedo Troncoso - Theatre
• 1959 - Benito Rebolledo Correa - Painting
• 1960 - Acario Cotapos Baeza - Music
• 1961 - José Rojas Ibarra - Theatre
• 1962 - Not awarded
• 1963 - Not awarded
• 1964 - Samuel Román Rojas - Sculpture
• 1965 - Carlos Isamitt Alarcón - Music
• 1966 - Pedro Sienna - Theatre
• 1967 - Laureano Ladrón de Guevara - Painting
• 1968 - Alfonso Letelier - Music
• 1969 - Ana González
  Ana González
  Ana González Olea was a Chilean theater, radio, television and radio actress. She was commonly known by her nickname of La Desideria by colleagues and fans....
  
   - Theatre
• 1970 - Marta Colvin - Sculpture
• 1971 - Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt
  Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt
  Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt was a Chilean composer.Becerra-Schmidt lived in Germany since 1973 and taught at Oldenburg University since 1974. Becerra was the most prolific Chilean composer...
  
   - Music
• 1972 - Agustín Siré Sinobas - Music
• 1973 - Not awarded
• 1974 - Ana Cortés Jullian - Painting
• 1975 - Not awarded
• 1976 - Jorge Urrutia Blondel - Music
• 1977 - Not awarded
• 1978 - Pedro Mortheiru Salgado - Theatre
• 1979 - Carlos Pedraza Olguín - Painting
• 1980 - Víctor Tevah Tellias - Music
• 1981 - Fernando Debesa Marín - Theatre
• 1982 - Mario Carreño Morales
  Mario Carreño Morales
  Mario Carreño Morales was a Cuban painter.He studied painting in the Academia de San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba since 1925 until 1926. In 1934, he studied in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain...
  
   - Painting
• 1983 - Claudio Arrau
  Claudio Arrau
  Claudio Arrau León was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms and Debussy...
  
   - Music
• 1984 - Ernest Uthoff Biefand - Ballet
• 1985 - Israel Roa Villagra - Painting
• 1986 - Federico Heinlein - Music
• 1988 - Silvia Piñeiro Rodríguez - Theatre
• 1990 - Roberto Matta
  Roberto Matta
  Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren , better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art....
  
   - Painting
• 1992 - Juan Orrego-Salas
  Juan Orrego-Salas
  Juan Antonio Orrego Salas is a Chilean composer of contemporary classical music and musicologist.He was a student of Randall Thompson and Aaron Copland in the United States, and later he settled in that country in the early 1960s to work at Indiana University, where he co-founded the Latin...
  
  - Music