Alejandro Otero

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for the model/actor, see Alejandro Otero Larez

Alejandro Otero (El Manteco, Bolívar March 7th, 1921 - Caracas 13th, August 1990) was a renowned Venezuelan artist, writer and cultural promoter.

He studied at the "Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Artes Aplicadas de Caracas" from 1939 to 1945. After finishing his studies he travelled to New York and Paris where he focused his work on modeling common household utensils. This works became well known in 1948 at an exhibition in Washington, D.C. since they served as a transition for Otero to overcome Realism and adapt in his work the abstractionism of artists like Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian.