Joaquin Torres-García Montevideo 1874-Montevideo 1949

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Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Abstract Art in Five Tones and complementaries (1943); oil on board mounted on panel, 20 ½ x 26 ⅝ inches; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
Self-Portrait

Torres-García’s is respected by art historians for his singular ability to connect Latin American visual culture with modern European Constructivism. He studied at Barcelona’s Real Academia de Catalunya and Cercle Artsitic de sant Lluc.

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Joaquin Torres-García, Dos Figuras constructivas con Objetos (1949); oil on board; 50 x 50 inches; Galeria Leandro Navarro, Madrid, Spain

Torres-García created many frescoes, which were to be public art, while living and studying in Spain just after the turn of the century. Unfortunately, these were all destroyed in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. He worked with Gaudíon stained-glass windows for the Sagrada Familia Cathedral in Barcelona, Spain and the cathedral at Palma, Mallorca.

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Joaquin Torres-García, New York Street Scene, (1928), oil on paper mounted on cradled wood panel; 19 ⅜ x 25 ⅞; Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum of Art, Washington, DC

He lived in New York and Paris in the 1920s and had his first solo exhibition in Paris in 1926. Torres-García was part of the avant garde circle that included Mondrian, Vantongerloo and van Doesburg. He was one of the founders of the periodical Cercle et Carréin Paris, along with art critic and artist Michel Seuphor.

Joaquin Torres-Garcia; Upside Down Map (1943)

Joaquin Torres-Garcia; Upside Down Map (1943)

When Torres-Garcia returned to Uruguay in 1934, he founded an art school, became an art teacher and writer. After World War II, he established the Taller Torres-Garcia, as an art collective. Torres-Garcia was one of the foremost promoters of the significance of South American culture to world art. Today, much of his work taking South America as a subject forms the basis for the Torres-Garcia Museum in Montevideo.

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Joaquin Torres-Garcia; The Port (1942); oil on cardboard; 31 ⅜ x 39 ⅞ inches; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Over the course of his career, his work became more two-dimensional, and Kinetic, influenced by the Catalan Noucentisme Symbolist Neo-Classicism as well as the ancient art of South America. His palette was earth-toned, with much use of impasto, his compositions featured South American symbols and pictograms.

Joaquin Torres-Garcia; Paisaje de Ciudad, (1928)

Joaquin Torres-García, Paisaje de Ciudad, (1928), oil on cardboard, 36 x 56 cm., Museo Nacional Montevideo, Uruguay.

Torres-García’s significance went well beyond his immediate circle. He was not only an artist but also an art theorist. His theories helped to form the basis for the still-influential Southern School, encompassing the art of all of the South America.

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