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A panorama of the
20th Century
20th Century
by
Adriana Lauria and Enrique Llambías
January 2003
January 2003
This page offers a panorama of Argentine visual art during the 20 th Century. It comprises a brief overview across the period through twelve paradigmatic works, a chronology which shows the main artistic events of the period and a scheme presenting the various groups and trends supported by illustrations.
Faustino Brughetti
Lavanderas
(Washerwomen)
1900
Lavanderas
(Washerwomen)
1900
1902
Martín Malharro exhibits at Galería Witcomb, where he shows works produced under the influence of Impressionism. Some of them are finished after his return to Buenos Aires.
The previous year Faustino Brughetti exhibited in La Prensa, showing landscapes in the style of the Italian Macchiaioli painters. Within a milieu which resists stylistic changes, both events are of great importance in bringing Argentine national art in line with the times.
Cándido López, the painter and soldier of the Paraguayan War, dies in Baradero, Buenos Aires Province.
Emilio Caraffa creates the Academia de Bellas Artes in the city of Córdoba, being its first director. In the same city, ten years later, he and Dr. Jacobo Wolff found the Fine Arts Museum that today bears his name.
