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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.
Luis Falcini
El pastor adolescente
(The adolescent shepherd)
1913
El pastor adolescente
(The adolescent shepherd)
1913
1935
By a socialist initiative, the Buenos Aires Deliberative Council founds the Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes y de Artes Comparadas, currently the Museo Eduardo Sívori. Sculptor, Luis Falcini, is its organiser and first director, sharing this task originally with art historian, Geo Dorival. Although the museum is opened in 1938, Falcini organises previous exhibitions with works by Aquilles Badi, Spilimbergo, Pettoruti and Facio Hebequer. His objective is to make a museum of national art for which he acquires works by the above mentioned artists as well as by Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Malharro, Ramón Silva, de Navazio, Quirós, Fader, Curatella Manes, Berni, Victorica, Guttero, Gómez Cornet, Giambiagi, etc.
The Salón Nacional rejects Desocupados –then entitled Desocupación– and accepts the oil-painting, La mujer del sweater rojo, both works painted by Berni.
