Art as a vital experience in the work of Eugenio Brito. A look through his notebooks, sketches, photographic records and travel notes from the family collection

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Travel and contact with foreign trends marked a before and after in the career of the artist Eugenio Brito Honorato, originally from Valparaíso, but settled at the end of his life in the city of Concepción. His notes, his letters, photographs and impressions of those trips are a treasure that his children safeguard today, and that today they generously share in order to have a broader vision of the artistic currents and circuits of Chile, especially between the 1950s and 70’. “Every artist needs to leave his country to discover new horizons,” wrote the teacher, whose findings led him to reflect on the human essence, the search for primitive man and the human spirit, present in his works.