Petrona Viera

Petrona Viera was an Uruguayan painter.

She was born in Montevideo in 1895 as the daughter of Carmen Garino and President Feliciano Viera. She is considered the first female professional painter in Uruguay. She was part of the Planismo movement of austere lines and bright colors. Viera was deaf since the age of two due to meningitis, and used art as a way to express herself. As a child she was taught by a French teacher specializing in the teaching of deaf children, Madame Madeleine Larnaudie.

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