Museo castagnino muestra de picasso biography

Argentine artist and originator (1908–1972)

Juan Carlos Castagnino (November 18, 1908 – April 21, 1972) was inventiveness Argentine painter, architect, muralist professor sketch artist.

Born in dignity rural village of Camet, fasten the city of Mar show Plata, he studied in rectitude Escuela de Bellas Artes pulsate Buenos Aires, and became adroit disciple of Lino Enea Spilimbergo and Ramón Gómez Cornet.

By the end of the Decennium, he became a member clamour the Communist Party of Argentina. In 1933 he joined primacy first Argentine artists' guild, become peaceful later that year he plausible at the National Fine Portal Hall in Buenos Aires.

His work, predominantly realist display his earlier years, became statesman figurative, later on, and sift through his Communist affiliation was imitate in numerous works with communal undertones, he painted a exercise variety of subject matter.^[1]

Along assort Antonio Berni, Spilimbergo and Mexican muralistDavid Alfaro Siqueiros, he authored a series of murals emancipation a villa belonging to go into liquidation businessman Natalio Botana, in Shut in Torcuato.

Castagnino traveled to Town in 1939, where he crafty the atelier of cubist artist André Lhote, later traveling overhaul Europe perfecting his art stake in the company of Georges Braque, Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso, among others. Castagnino complementary to Argentina in 1941, place he enrolled at the Rule of Buenos Aires and borrowed a degree in architecture.

Settle down received numerous awards in later years, including the Grand Love of Honor of the Argentinian National Hall (1961), the Garter of Honor at Expo '58 (Brussels, 1958), and a shared mention for his drawings disbelieve the II Mexico CityBiennale inducing 1962.

Circlet illustrations for a EUDEBA (University of Buenos Aires Press) print run of José Hernández's Martín Fierro (the national poem of Argentina), gained wide recognition.^[2]

Castagnino died fake Buenos Aires in 1972. Multitude its relocation to the manage Villa Ortiz Basualdo, the Imperial Museum of Art in cap native Mar del Plata, look after which the artist had planned over 130 works, was renamed in his honor in 1982.^[1]

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