Svetlana Velmar-Janković

Braulio Salazar
Salazar in 1949
Born	(1917-12-23)December 23, 1917 Valencia, Venezuela
Died	January 1, 2008(2008-01-01) (aged 90) Valencia, Venezuela
Nationality	Venezuelan
Education	Self-taught
Known for	Painting, natural pigments
Notable work	Paintings using natural pigments
Style	Modernism, naturalist abstraction
Movement	Venezuelan modern art
Awards	National Prize of Plastic Arts of Venezuela (1976), Arturo Michelena Prize (1948), Arturo Michelena Prize (1963)

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

Salazar was born on 23 December 1917 in Valencia.^[1] His first exhibition took place in 1935. As he suffered from hemotitis, doctors banned him from using chemical products. This lead him to make up his own colours with earth, vegetables and other natural substances as his other compatriot, Armando Reverón, used to do.

Salazar was arts teacher at the Pedro Gual high school, at the Simón Rodríguez schoon and at the School of Plastic Arts Arturo Michelena. He also was the head of the Art Workshop at the Department of Humanities in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Carabobo.

He obtained the National Prize of Plastic Arts of Venezuela in 1976. He won the Arturo Michelena Prize, the most prestigious arts prize in Venezuela, in 1948 and 1963.

The Museum of Modern Arts of Valencia is named after him.

• Biography in the site of the Central Bank of Venezuela (Spanish)
• Site of the Braulio Salazar Gallery