Eugenio Cruz Vargas | |
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Born |
Eugenio Cruz Vargas October 2, 1923 Santiago, Chile |
Died | January 18, 2014 Olmue, Chile |
Nationality | Chilean |
Known for | Painter and poet |
Notable work | Painting: Macizo Almirante Nieto (Torres del Paine), Valparaíso, Landscape Mítico and other. Poetry: The only time I lie, Sky and From the Earthly to the Spatial |
Movement | Naturalism, Romanticism and creationism |
Signature | |
Eugenio Cruz Vargas (Santiago, October 2, 1923 – Olmué, January 18, 2014) was a notable Chilean poet and painter. His art was developed under the naturalistic landscape and abstraction, and his collection of poems under the concepts of surrealism and culminate in the literary creationism.)
His parents were Pedro Nolasco Cruz Correa and Maria Vargas Bello, he was grandson of the literary critic Pedro Nolasco Cruz Vergara, great-grandson of Francisco Vargas Fontecilla and Vicente Correa Albano, and great-great-grandson of Andrés Bello López and Pedro Nolasco Vergara Albano.
He married on July 15, 1950 with Luz Vergara Errazuriz (July 10, 1927 – June 25, 2014), great-granddaughter of Juan Mackenna O'Reilly. Together they had 9 children; José Eugenio, Soledad, Juan José, Eduardo, Josefina, Isabel, Felipe, María de la Luz and Santiago.
He studied at the Colegio San Ignacio, a jesuit school located in Santiago. Then he worked at Banco de Chile in marketing and property development, particularly in real estate development in communes located in the north-east part of Santiago: Providencia, Vitacura and Las Condes.
In the early sixties, he became a partner in the "Agencia de Publicidad Cóndor" an advertising agency funded in 1942 by Ruperto Vergara Santa Cruz, company that he ended up owning. Later on he stablished the agencies "Cruz y del Solar", and in the following years "Vía Publicidad" y "Publicidad Siete".