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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.
Carmelo Arden Quin
Andre
1945
Andre
1945
1944
Universalismo Constructivo, a book by Joaquín Torres García, is published in Buenos Aires.
The only issue of Arturo. Revista de artes abstractas, is published, marking the beginning of Concrete Art in Argentina. The publishers soon begin to disagree on their aesthetic programme and, in 1945, Tomás Maldonado, Lidy Prati and Edgar Bayley create the Asociación Arte Concreto Invención. In 1946, Carmelo Arden Quin, Gyula Kosice and Rhod Rothfuss create the Madí group. That same year, the manifestos of both groups are distributed and Lucio Fontana presents the Manifiesto Blanco.
Berni, Spilimbergo, Castagnino, Demetrio Uruchúa and Manuel Colmeiro create the Mural Art Workshop which, in 1946, decorates the dome of Galerías Pacífico.
