Bartolomé Sanchez, better known as Bartus Bartolomes, is an artist born in 1950 in the town of Pregonero, the state of Táchira in Venezuela. He is currently based in Italy and France. Bartus creates using a wide range of mediums, including painting, drawing, caricature, photography, design and even poetry. In 1969 he wrote "Kitsch Art", a manifesto promoting street artistic experimentalism.