Argentine painting
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Argentine painting refers to all the pictorial production
done in the territory of Argentina
throughout the centuries.
, one of the masterpieces of paleolithic painting, is located in the Santa Cruz Province
of Argentina. It has been declared a World Heritage Site
by UNESCO
. Other important prehistoric artwork is located in the north of Córdoba
. A collection of more than 35,000 pictographs (one of the densest collections of such images in the world) is found in the hills of Colorado, Veladero, Intihuasi and Unmount.
More recently, the pre-Hispanic cultures that inhabited the present territory of Argentina left a number of pictoral records. In the Andean northeast, the Ceramic Period cultures, from the Condorhuasi culture (400 BCE-700 CE) to the La Aguada (650-950 CE) and Santa María (1200-1470 CE), show a comprehensive development in the painting of ceramics and stone.
Colonial painting is also seen in the books and manuscripts made by colonists, priests, scientists, and visitors. Notable among these are the drawings and watercolors of the German Jesuit Florian Paucke (1719–1789).
In what is now northwest Argentina, especially in Jujuy, the Cuzco School
developed in the churches, with its images of ángeles arcabuceros (angels armed with Spanish colonial muskets) and triangular virgins (a syncretism of the cult of the Virgin Mary and the Pachamama
).
; the mariner Adolfo D'Hastrel
(1805–1875), who published his drawings and watercolors in the book Colección de vistas y costumbres del Río de la Plata (1875); and lithographer César Hipólito Bacle (1790–1838).
In the 1830s, Carlos Morel (1813–1894), considered the first strictly Argentine painter, came to prominence. Soon after followed Prilidiano Pueyrredón
(1823–1870) and Cándido López
(1840–1902), who painted the life of gauchos and the wars of premodern Argentina.
In the middle of the 19th century the first Argentine artistic institutions began to be organized. These included La Sociedad Estímulo de Bellas Artes and El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, whose first director was the painter Eduardo Schiaffino
. The great wave of European immigration (1870–1930) established a strong relationship to European painting, mainly through Italian painters or children of Italians. Eduardo Sívori
(1847–1918) introduced naturalism with works such as El despertar de la criada, followed by painters like Reynaldo Giudici (1853–1927) and Ernesto de la Cárcova
(1866–1927), Angel Della Valle (1852–1903) developed a painting movement depicting the customs of the countryside, with works like La vuelta del malón.
(1865–1911) introduced impressionism to Argentina. He was followed by painters including Faustino Brughetti (1877–1956), Walter de Navazio (1887–1919) and Ramón Silva
(1890–1919). Soon after, Fernando Fader (1882–1935) and the artists of the Nexus group began to push for the development of artistic currents that, without ignoring or disavowing the painting fashionable in Paris, would be capable of expressing independent views of painting.
(1916), and the cultural revolution that involved the University Reform of 1918. In this context, in which there continued to be influence from the Paris School (Modigliani, Chagall, Soutine, Klee), three main groups arose.
The Florida group was characterized by paying the highest attention to aesthetics. Its members generally belonged to the middle and upper classes. They met in the Richmond confectionery on the elegant and central calle Florida, from which the group takes its name. Its painters included Aquiles Badi, Héctor Basaldúa, Antonio Berni
, Norah Borges
, Horacio Butler, Emilio Centurión, Juan del Prete, Raquel Forner
, Ramón Gomez Cornet, Alfredo Guttero, Emilio Pettoruti
, Xul Solar
, and Lino Eneas Spilimbergo.
The Boedo group took social issues and struggles as its central themes. El Grupo Boedo, with painters such as José Arato, Adolfo Bellocq, Guillermo Hebécquer and Abraham Vigo. They were centered around the socialist Claridad publishing house, which had its workshops on calle Boedo, in the working-class suburbs of the city. Boedo group painters included José Arato, Adolfo Bellocq
, Guillermo Hebécquer, and Abraham Vigo.
The La Boca group was strongly influenced by Italian immigration and developed a distinctive style centered on labor and immigrant neighborhoods. These artists included Victor Cúnsolo, Eugenio Daneri, Fortunato Lacámera, Alfredo Lazzari, Benito Quinquela Martín
, and Miguel Carlos Victorica.
para la sección de escultura, Víctor Rebuffo en grabado y Pedro Zurro de la Fuente en matalistería. Ramón Gómez Cornet y los dibujantes Lajos Szalay y Aurelio Salas participaron también de este emprendimiento junto a Carlos Alonso , Juan Carlos de la Motta , Eduardo Audivert , Leonor Vassena, Alfredo Portillos, Medardo Pantoja , Luis Lobo de la Vega , Mercedes Romero, Nieto Palacios y otros. The project of the Higher Institute of Arts joined in various disciplines: Lorenzo Dominguez for the section of sculpture, Victor Rebuffo recorded in Zurro and Pedro de la Fuente in matalistería. Ramón Gómez Cornet and cartoonists Lajos Szalay and Aurelio Salas also participated in this endeavor along with Carlos Alonso, Juan Carlos de la Motta, Eduardo Audivert, Leonor Vassena, Alfredo Portillo, Medardo Pantoja, Luis Lobo de la Vega, Mercedes Romero, Nieto Palacios et al.
, Carlos Torrallardona, Luis Aquino
, Atilio Malinverno, and Alfredo Gramajo Gutiérrez.
and Carmelo Arden Quin, and included artists such as Rhod Rothfuss, Martín Blaszko, Waldo Longo, and Diyi Laañ.
New Figurativism, formed in the 1960s,
La Nueva Figuración, reunió en la década del 60 , varios artistas que adoptaron el nombre de "Otra Figuración", que recuperan la figura humana, pero con el fin de darle formas libres, muchas veces monstruosas y cadavéricas. The New Figuration, met in the decade of 60, several artists who adopted the name "Another Figuration," recovering the human figure, but in order to give free-form, often monstrous and corpses. Los artistas más destacados de esta corriente son Jorge de la Vega , Rómulo Macció , Luis Felipe Noé , Antonio Seguí
, Miguel Á. The most prominent artists of this current is Jorge de la Vega, Rómulo Macció, Luis Felipe Noé, Antonio Seguí, Miguel Á. Dávila , Juan Carlos Distéfano . Davila, Juan Carlos Distefano.
Argentine neosurrealism includes painters such as Guillermo Roux
and Roberto Aizenberg
. In their art they express human anguish in times of great social and political unrest.
The Spartacus Group (Grupo Espartaco) was founded by Ricardo Carpani
, Juan Manuel Sánchez
, and Mario Mollari, among others. It linked painting to active engagement with social struggles, unions in particular. Their esthetic is integrated into the traditions of Latin America.
A partir de la noción de "sistema", derivada de la ciencia cibernética, desde comienzos de la década del 70 , varios artistas y especialistas en Comunicación, desarrollaron una corriente denominada Arte de Sistema , expresándose de maneras diversas bajo denominaciones como "arte conceptual", "arte ecológico de la tierra", "arte pobre", "arte de proposiciones" y "arte cibernético". Since the notion of "system", derived from the science cybernetics, from the early 70's, several artists and specialists in communication, develop a stream called the System of Art, expressed in different ways under names such as "conceptual art" "Eco Art of the Earth", "poor art", "Art of propositions" and "cyber-art." Algunos de los artistas argentinos de esta corriente son Luis Fernando Benedit , Nicolás Dermisache y Lea Lublin . Some of the artists are aware of this Argentinian Luis Fernando Benedit, Nicholas Dermisache and Lea Lublin.
Derived from the Happening movement, Marta Minujín
has developed a type of art called "ephemeral art."
The art of León Ferrari
has stood out in recent times. Ferrari received the Golden Lion
prize at the 2007 Venice Biennial and is considered among the few most important living painters.
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
done in the territory of Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
throughout the centuries.
Pre-Columbian painting
The Cueva de las ManosCueva de las Manos
Cueva de las Manos is a cave or a series of caves located in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina, 163 km south of the town of Perito Moreno. It is famous for the paintings of hands, made by the indigenous inhabitants some 9,000 years ago...
, one of the masterpieces of paleolithic painting, is located in the Santa Cruz Province
Santa Cruz Province (Argentina)
Santa Cruz is a province of Argentina, located in the southern part of the country, in Patagonia. It borders Chubut province to the north, and Chile to the west and south. To the east is the Atlantic Ocean...
of Argentina. It has been declared a World Heritage Site
World Heritage Site
A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a place that is listed by the UNESCO as of special cultural or physical significance...
by UNESCO
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
. Other important prehistoric artwork is located in the north of Córdoba
Córdoba, Argentina
Córdoba is a city located near the geographical center of Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas on the Suquía River, about northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province. Córdoba is the second-largest city in Argentina after the federal capital Buenos Aires, with...
. A collection of more than 35,000 pictographs (one of the densest collections of such images in the world) is found in the hills of Colorado, Veladero, Intihuasi and Unmount.
More recently, the pre-Hispanic cultures that inhabited the present territory of Argentina left a number of pictoral records. In the Andean northeast, the Ceramic Period cultures, from the Condorhuasi culture (400 BCE-700 CE) to the La Aguada (650-950 CE) and Santa María (1200-1470 CE), show a comprehensive development in the painting of ceramics and stone.
Colonial painting
During the Spanish colonial era, painting developed primarily as a religious art in churches, designed to Christianize indigenous peoples. Colonial-era religious painting was often done by forced indigenous artists and African slaves under the power of the religious orders.Colonial painting is also seen in the books and manuscripts made by colonists, priests, scientists, and visitors. Notable among these are the drawings and watercolors of the German Jesuit Florian Paucke (1719–1789).
In what is now northwest Argentina, especially in Jujuy, the Cuzco School
Cuzco School
The Cuzco School was a Roman Catholic artistic tradition based in Cusco, Peru during the Colonial period, in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries...
developed in the churches, with its images of ángeles arcabuceros (angels armed with Spanish colonial muskets) and triangular virgins (a syncretism of the cult of the Virgin Mary and the Pachamama
Pachamama
Pachamama is a goddess revered by the indigenous people of the Andes. Pachamama is usually translated as Mother Earth, but a more literal translation would be "Mother world"...
).
Nineteenth century
In the first years of the 19th century, many foreign artists visited and resided in Argentina, leaving their works. Among them were English mariner Emeric Essex Vidal (1791–1861), a watercolorist who left important graphic evidence of Argentine history; French engineer Carlos E. Pellegrini (1800–1875), who was devoted to painting out of necessity and who would be the father of president Carlos PellegriniCarlos Pellegrini
Carlos Enrique José Pellegrini Bevans was President of Argentina from 6 August 1890 to 12 October 1892....
; the mariner Adolfo D'Hastrel
Adolphe Hastrel de Rivedoux
Adolphe Hastrel de Rivedoux was a 19th century engraver and painter. Well known for his travels and his writing, he is best known as an artist. His father, Etienne Hastrel de Rivedoux was a general of division in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars...
(1805–1875), who published his drawings and watercolors in the book Colección de vistas y costumbres del Río de la Plata (1875); and lithographer César Hipólito Bacle (1790–1838).
In the 1830s, Carlos Morel (1813–1894), considered the first strictly Argentine painter, came to prominence. Soon after followed Prilidiano Pueyrredón
Prilidiano Pueyrredón
Prilidiano Pueyrredón was an Argentine painter, architect, and engineer. As one of the country's first prominent painters, he was known for his costumbrist sensibility and preference for everyday themes....
(1823–1870) and Cándido López
Cándido López
Cándido López was an Argentine painter and soldier. Born in Buenos Aires, he is considered one of Argentina's most important artists. He is most famous for his detailed paintings and drawings of battles of the War of the Triple Alliance, in which he also fought, losing his right arm...
(1840–1902), who painted the life of gauchos and the wars of premodern Argentina.
In the middle of the 19th century the first Argentine artistic institutions began to be organized. These included La Sociedad Estímulo de Bellas Artes and El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, whose first director was the painter Eduardo Schiaffino
Eduardo Schiaffino
Eduardo Schiaffino was an Argentine painter, critic, intellectual and historian. A member of a group known as the Generation of '80, he founded the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires and sparked the development of painting in his country.-Biography:Schiaffino was born in Buenos Aires in...
. The great wave of European immigration (1870–1930) established a strong relationship to European painting, mainly through Italian painters or children of Italians. Eduardo Sívori
Eduardo Sívori
Eduardo Sívori was an Argentine artist widely regarded as his country's first realist painter.-Life and work:...
(1847–1918) introduced naturalism with works such as El despertar de la criada, followed by painters like Reynaldo Giudici (1853–1927) and Ernesto de la Cárcova
Ernesto de la Cárcova
Ernesto de la Cárcova was an Argentine painter of the Realist school.-Life and work:Ernesto de la Cárcova was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1866. Taking an early interest in the canvas, he studied at the local Society for the Stimulus of Fine Arts under painter Francisco Romero...
(1866–1927), Angel Della Valle (1852–1903) developed a painting movement depicting the customs of the countryside, with works like La vuelta del malón.
Twentieth century
At a 1902 exhibition, Martín MalharroMartín Malharro
Martín Malharro was an Argentine painter of the Post-impressionist school.-Life and work: Martín Malharro was born in the central Buenos Aires Province city of Azul in 1865. His childhood interest in painting led to domestic violence at home, from which he left for Buenos Aires in 1879...
(1865–1911) introduced impressionism to Argentina. He was followed by painters including Faustino Brughetti (1877–1956), Walter de Navazio (1887–1919) and Ramón Silva
Ramón Silva
Ramón Silva was an Argentine painter of the Post-impressionist school.-Life and work:Ramón Silva was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1890...
(1890–1919). Soon after, Fernando Fader (1882–1935) and the artists of the Nexus group began to push for the development of artistic currents that, without ignoring or disavowing the painting fashionable in Paris, would be capable of expressing independent views of painting.
First avant-garde movement
The first major artistic movements in Argentina coincided with the first signs of political liberty in the country, such as the 1913 sanction of the secret ballot and universal male suffrage, the first president to be popularly electedHipólito Yrigoyen
Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Irigoyen Alem was twice President of Argentina . His activism became the prime impetus behind the obtainment of universal suffrage in Argentina in 1912...
(1916), and the cultural revolution that involved the University Reform of 1918. In this context, in which there continued to be influence from the Paris School (Modigliani, Chagall, Soutine, Klee), three main groups arose.
The Florida group was characterized by paying the highest attention to aesthetics. Its members generally belonged to the middle and upper classes. They met in the Richmond confectionery on the elegant and central calle Florida, from which the group takes its name. Its painters included Aquiles Badi, Héctor Basaldúa, Antonio Berni
Antonio Berni
Delesio Antonio Berni was a figurative artist, born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. He worked as a painter, an illustrator and an engraver. His father, Napoleón Berni, was an immigrant tailor from Italy...
, Norah Borges
Norah Borges
Leonor Fanny Borges Acevedo , better known by the pseudonym Norah Borges was a visual artist and art critic, member of the Florida group, and sister of the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges....
, Horacio Butler, Emilio Centurión, Juan del Prete, Raquel Forner
Raquel Forner
Raquel Forner was an Argentine painter known for her expressionist works.-Life:Forner was born in Buenos Aires in 1902. Her father was Spanish by nationality and her mother was an Argentine of Spanish descent...
, Ramón Gomez Cornet, Alfredo Guttero, Emilio Pettoruti
Emilio Pettoruti
Emilio Pettoruti was an Argentine painter, who caused a scandal with his avant-garde cubist exhibition in 1924 in Buenos Aires. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Buenos Aires was a city full of artistic development...
, Xul Solar
Xul Solar
Xul Solar was the adopted name of Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari , Argentine painter, sculptor, writer, and inventor of imaginary languages.-Biography:...
, and Lino Eneas Spilimbergo.
The Boedo group took social issues and struggles as its central themes. El Grupo Boedo, with painters such as José Arato, Adolfo Bellocq, Guillermo Hebécquer and Abraham Vigo. They were centered around the socialist Claridad publishing house, which had its workshops on calle Boedo, in the working-class suburbs of the city. Boedo group painters included José Arato, Adolfo Bellocq
Adolfo Bellocq
Adolfo Bellocq was an influential Argentine artist known for his lithographs.Born in Buenos Aires, Bellocq was self-taught in the art of xylography and engraving. He was appointed Director of the Lithography Workshop at Buenos Aires' renowned Ernesto de la Cárcova Fine Arts School, in 1928...
, Guillermo Hebécquer, and Abraham Vigo.
The La Boca group was strongly influenced by Italian immigration and developed a distinctive style centered on labor and immigrant neighborhoods. These artists included Victor Cúnsolo, Eugenio Daneri, Fortunato Lacámera, Alfredo Lazzari, Benito Quinquela Martín
Benito Quinquela Martín
Benito Quinquela Martín , 1890 – January 28, 1977) was an Argentine painter born in La Boca, Buenos Aires. Quinquela Martín is considered the port painter-par-excellence and one of the most popular Argentine painters...
, and Miguel Carlos Victorica.
Second avant-garde movement
In the second avant-garde movement, or the wave of innovations in Argentine painting developed in the 1930s, many painters of the first avant-garde movement evolved and changed their artistic position. Among the leading artistic groups were:- The Orion Group, composed of Luis BarragánLuis BarragánLuis Barragán Morfin was a Mexican architect. He was self-trained.-Early life:Educated as an engineer, he graduated from the Escuela Libre de Ingenieros in Guadalajara in 1923 and was self-trained as an architect.After graduation, he travelled through Spain, France , and...
, Vicente Forte, and Leopoldo PresasLeopoldo PresasLeopoldo Presas was an Argentine artist. He experienced different styles throughout his life. He had academic training and started as a figurative painter though he later turned into expressionism as well. He tried several mediums as oil, tempera, charcoal and pencil on different supports including...
, among others. - The Sensitive painters, characterized by the use of color as an emotional tool. Raúl SoldiRaúl SoldiRaúl Soldi was an Argentine painter whose work treated various subjects, including landscapes, portraits, the theater and the circus, and nature. His theatrical figures are renowned for their melancholy appearance...
was the most prominent of this group; others included Miguel Carlos Victorica, Raúl Russo, Eugenio Daneri, and Miguel Diómede. - The Naive painters, whose paintings forewent human or social conflicts, such as Luis Centurión and Norah Borges.
- The neo-realists, who in some ways continued the line of the Boedo group, but with strict pictorial and avant-garde elements. This group includes Carlos Alonso, Antonio Berni, Juan Carlos Castagnino, Demetrio Urruchúa, Enrique Policastro. Florencio Molina Campos and Medardo Pantoja can also be included in the group. Campos for his naive painting of social elements via caricature and the use of "significant" color; and Pantoja whose painting was inspired by the indigenous Andean and Latin American cultures.
Escuela de Muralistas Tucumanos School Tucumano muralists
A partir de 1946 se produce un giro en la política académica de las escuelas de Bellas Artes de Argentina, al son de los apartamientos políticos de maestros argentinos expulsados de otras escuelas de bellas artes como Mendoza o Buenos Aires. Since 1946 was a turning point in the academic policy of the schools of Fine Arts of Argentina, the apartments are of the Argentine political masters expelled from other schools of fine arts as Mendoza and Buenos Aires. En 1948 se organizó el Taller de Pintura del Instituto Superior de Artes de la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán bajo la conducción de Lino Enés Spilimbergo y la dirección de Guido Parpagnoli, donde se formó un polo de la plástica argentina de gran interés con los más destacados artistas: la Escuela de Muralistas Tucumanos, inspirada en las enseñanzas de Lothe y los principios armónicos de Matyla Ghyka. In 1948 it organized the paint shop of the Instituto Superior of Arts of the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán led by Enes Lino Spilimbergo and direction of Guido Parpagnoli, which formed one pole of the plastic argentina of great interest to the most outstanding artists : School Tucumano muralists, inspired by the teachings and principles of Lothar Matyla Ghyka harmonics. Al proyecto del Instituto Superior de Artes se sumaron en distintas disciplinas: Lorenzo DomínguezLorenzo Domínguez
Lorenzo Domínguez was a prolific Latin American sculptor whose art is a deliberate and personal synthesis of pre-Columbian and Rapa Nui aesthetics with a European artistic formation....
para la sección de escultura, Víctor Rebuffo en grabado y Pedro Zurro de la Fuente en matalistería. Ramón Gómez Cornet y los dibujantes Lajos Szalay y Aurelio Salas participaron también de este emprendimiento junto a Carlos Alonso , Juan Carlos de la Motta , Eduardo Audivert , Leonor Vassena, Alfredo Portillos, Medardo Pantoja , Luis Lobo de la Vega , Mercedes Romero, Nieto Palacios y otros. The project of the Higher Institute of Arts joined in various disciplines: Lorenzo Dominguez for the section of sculpture, Victor Rebuffo recorded in Zurro and Pedro de la Fuente in matalistería. Ramón Gómez Cornet and cartoonists Lajos Szalay and Aurelio Salas also participated in this endeavor along with Carlos Alonso, Juan Carlos de la Motta, Eduardo Audivert, Leonor Vassena, Alfredo Portillo, Medardo Pantoja, Luis Lobo de la Vega, Mercedes Romero, Nieto Palacios et al.
"Modern" painters
Argentina's "modern painters" are a difficult group to define. They have developed a constructivist rather than figurative style, though it is not quite abstract. Artists of this group include Julio Barragán, Luis SeoaneLuís Seoane
Luis Seoane was a lithographer and artist. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on June 1, 1910, of Galician immigrants, he spent much of his childhood and youth in Galicia . He was educated in A Coruña...
, Carlos Torrallardona, Luis Aquino
Luis Aquino
Luis Antonio Aquino [ah-KEE-noh] is a former middle relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Toronto Blue Jays , Kansas City Royals , Florida Marlins , Montreal Expos and San Francisco Giants...
, Atilio Malinverno, and Alfredo Gramajo Gutiérrez.
Abstract art
Juan Del Prete (later the creator of Futucubismo, a mixture of Cubism and Futurism) came from the abstract art movement in Argentina, which developed in the 1940's from, of course, concrete art. Tomás Maldonado is one of the most well known abstract artists.Madí Movement
The Madí Movement, began in Argentina in 1946. One source claims Madí was founded in protest to the government control of the arts under Juan Peron. while a different source says that Madí is not necessarily a response to that oppression. The movement spread to Europe and later the United States. It is considered the only artistic movement founded in Buenos Aires to have a significant impact internationally. It was founded by Gyula KosiceGyula Kosice
Gyula Kosice, born Fernando Fallik in Košice is a naturalized Argentine sculptor, plastic artist, theoretician and poet, one of the most important figures in kinetic and luminal art and luminance vanguard....
and Carmelo Arden Quin, and included artists such as Rhod Rothfuss, Martín Blaszko, Waldo Longo, and Diyi Laañ.
Recent trends
Among the latest trends in Argentine painting are new figurativism, pop art, new surrealism, hyperrealism, systems art, new abstract art, kinetic art, and ephemeral art.New Figurativism, formed in the 1960s,
La Nueva Figuración, reunió en la década del 60 , varios artistas que adoptaron el nombre de "Otra Figuración", que recuperan la figura humana, pero con el fin de darle formas libres, muchas veces monstruosas y cadavéricas. The New Figuration, met in the decade of 60, several artists who adopted the name "Another Figuration," recovering the human figure, but in order to give free-form, often monstrous and corpses. Los artistas más destacados de esta corriente son Jorge de la Vega , Rómulo Macció , Luis Felipe Noé , Antonio Seguí
Antonio Seguí
- Biography :Seguí is the oldest son of a middle-class and has three siblings. In the years from 1951 to 1954 he traveled through Europe and Africa, was visiting student at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid and at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris,...
, Miguel Á. The most prominent artists of this current is Jorge de la Vega, Rómulo Macció, Luis Felipe Noé, Antonio Seguí, Miguel Á. Dávila , Juan Carlos Distéfano . Davila, Juan Carlos Distefano.
Argentine neosurrealism includes painters such as Guillermo Roux
Guillermo Roux
Guillermo Roux is an Argentine painter known for his watercolors, collages and frescoes.Roux was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and his father, Raúl Roux, was a well-known Uruguayan painter. He studied in the Buenos Aires School of Fine Arts until 1948, and in 1956 he travelled to Rome...
and Roberto Aizenberg
Roberto Aizenberg
Roberto Aizenberg was a painter and sculptor...
. In their art they express human anguish in times of great social and political unrest.
The Spartacus Group (Grupo Espartaco) was founded by Ricardo Carpani
Ricardo Carpani
Ricardo Carpani was an Argentine artist.-Life and work:Born in Tigre, a northern suburb of Buenos Aires, his family moved to the city proper in 1936, and there Carpani finished his secondary school studies...
, Juan Manuel Sánchez
Juan Manuel Sánchez
Juan Manuel Sánchez de Castro is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold , a silver , and a bronze .Sánchez also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of...
, and Mario Mollari, among others. It linked painting to active engagement with social struggles, unions in particular. Their esthetic is integrated into the traditions of Latin America.
A partir de la noción de "sistema", derivada de la ciencia cibernética, desde comienzos de la década del 70 , varios artistas y especialistas en Comunicación, desarrollaron una corriente denominada Arte de Sistema , expresándose de maneras diversas bajo denominaciones como "arte conceptual", "arte ecológico de la tierra", "arte pobre", "arte de proposiciones" y "arte cibernético". Since the notion of "system", derived from the science cybernetics, from the early 70's, several artists and specialists in communication, develop a stream called the System of Art, expressed in different ways under names such as "conceptual art" "Eco Art of the Earth", "poor art", "Art of propositions" and "cyber-art." Algunos de los artistas argentinos de esta corriente son Luis Fernando Benedit , Nicolás Dermisache y Lea Lublin . Some of the artists are aware of this Argentinian Luis Fernando Benedit, Nicholas Dermisache and Lea Lublin.
Derived from the Happening movement, Marta Minujín
Marta Minujín
Marta Minujín is an Argentine Conceptual artist.-Life and work:Marta Minujín was born in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires. She met a young economist, Juan Carlos Gómez Sabaini, and married him in secret in 1959; the couple had two children...
has developed a type of art called "ephemeral art."
The art of León Ferrari
León Ferrari
León Ferrari , is a contemporary conceptual artist.Born in Buenos Aires, Ferrari employs methods such as collage, photocopying and sculpture in wood, plaster or ceramics. He often uses text, particularly newspaper clippings or poetry, in his pieces...
has stood out in recent times. Ferrari received the Golden Lion
Golden Lion
Il Leone d’Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes...
prize at the 2007 Venice Biennial and is considered among the few most important living painters.