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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.
Tomás Maldonado
Sin título
(Untitled)
1950
Sin título
(Untitled)
1950
1952
Art critic Aldo Pellegrini founds the Artistas Modernos de la Argentina group, including, among others, Maldonado, Prati, Hlito, Iommi and Girola and younger artists such as Miguel Ocampo, José Fernández Muro and Sarah Grilo. They stick to geometry although some members are contaminated by free abstraction.
The first exhibition of the group 20 painters and sculptors –including Américo Balán, Fernando López Anaya, Líbero Badíi, Julian Althabe, Noemí Gerstein, Magda Frank, Naum Knop, Juan C. Labourdette, Luis and Julio Barragán, Oscar Capristo, Luis Centurión, Vicente Forte, Aurelio Macchi, Febo Martí, Rafael Onetto, Orlando Pierri, Bruno Venier, etc.– is held at Galería Müller.
A retrospective exhibition of Vitullo's work is organised at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris.
