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Informalism
in Argentina
in Argentina
by
Jorge López Anaya
August 2003
August 2003
Argentine Informalism incorporated processes which went against the “good taste” of the local practices. Based on the existential poetry of the time, through spontaneous gestures and the use of discarded material, it violated the limits of the traditional artistic genre and opened the road to the concept of the object, the installations and the art of action.
Del Prete
Juan Del Prete
Pintura, 1959
Pintura, 1959
Informalism received the adhesion of artists coming from diverse trends and generations. One of the first to suffer the influx of the Informalist recourse was Juan Del Prete (Vasto, Chietti, Italia, 1897 - Buenos Aires, 1987), an outstanding figure of the thirties vanguard, who was never indifferent to the suggestions of the most advanced movements. As of 1958 he painted abstract eclectics, with spots and splashes. That year he received the Palanza Award, the most important distinction of the time, for a group of paintings made with blotches and drippings over different backgrounds and free geometric forms.
