Adolfo Couve Rioseco (1940-1998) was initially presented in the context of the retrospective exhibition Adolfo Couve: a painting lesson that took place at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago of Chile in September 2002. The copies of that first edition were soon exhausted. The new revised edition (2015) is published thanks to the Fondart - Convocatoria 2014, and contains unpublished material, a chapter dedicated to the retrospective exhibition of 2002 and an updated bibliographical list. It also includes numerous photographic details, this time captured with digital technology and controlled lighting. Both the images and the texts offer a clear record of the variety and uniqueness of the pictorial gestures of Couve and will undoubtedly allow you to understand and visualize its extraordinary body of work. Cabbage belonged to this group of few creators with talent enough to address both visual and written language. He opted for painting first, then postponed it for the sake of literature. He spent much of his life painting, writing and teaching about painting, aesthetics and art history.