Elsa Bolívar

Elsa Bolívar Bravo (21 September 1929 – 9 April 2021) was a Chilean painter and educator. In 1965, Bolívar co-founded the Form and Space Movement . in Santiago. From 1942 to 1946, Bolívar was educated at the Liceo Manuel de Salas.

In 1947, Bolívar enrolled at the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile where she studied under Carlos Pedraza Olguín, , and Jorge Caballero. Bolívar began exhibiting regularly at official salons from 1953 onwards. The same year Bolívar exhibited at the groups first exhibition at the Círculo de Periodistas in Santiago. Bolívar left the group in either 1974 or 1975.

Teaching Bolívar taught drawing, composition and colour at the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile from 1954 to 1988, when she retired from university teaching. From 1979 to 1982, Bolívar served as the director of the Arts Faculty's visual arts department.

Bolívar also taught in secondary schools from the mid-1950s onwards.

Personal life On 9 April 2021 Bolívar died in Santiago, aged 91.