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Paintings

 

Annunciation with Dove

 

Indolent women

 

On the beach

Alfredo Guttero was born in Buenos Aires in 1882, is one of the key artists in the history of Argentine art. From an early interest in art: first for the music, but culminates succeeding in painting. Guttero is the artist of the textures in his paintings in grease pencil, oil, tempera and plaster cooked, personal technique invented by the painter in 1927, constitute a body of work that is among the main protagonists of cultural renewal that occurred between late nineteenth and early twentieth century in what historians call modernity. Buenos Aires introduced the procedure of gypsum lime with which he made his most beautiful paintings and representative.

Guttero spent most of his professional life studying and working in Europe. It was in 1904 by the Argentine government scholarship and lived until 1916 in Paris. Studied with Lucien Simon and Maurice Denis. Later he lived in Segovia and Madrid, had brief residencies in Germany, Austria and Italy, and continued to travel to different cities in Belgium, England, Spain, France and Switzerland.

Alfredo Guttero

After more than two decades of absence, finally, in September 1927, he returned to Buenos Aires, where he displayed an intense activity until his death in 1932. In the statement of Baltimore, in 1930, won a first prize. Opened in the lobby of the Wagner Society in Florida Street, an exhibition hall and organized, with Raquel Forner, Alfredo Bigatti and Dominguez-Neira an atelier Barolo.1 free passage

During those five years in Argentina, Guttero went to work in his work and exhibit at the national and provincial halls of fine art ranging from the country and to open individual exhibitions and participate in exhibitions. But at the same time, became a man of action, putting much of their time and effort to design and deploy strategies and plans to address in order to confirm the presence of modern art in Argentina and to address the most reactionary and conservative local art scene.

His great interest in music led him to undertake projects of scenery for the Teatro Colon.

It is said that Guttero Argentine artist is more motivated to shape modernism in his works, since it could directly observe the evolution of Europe.

So his figures in static poses, are nevertheless intended to initiate certain movements that precisely the kinetic approach. This would identify his work with participation in the art and the art of cinema remarkable development since the late nineteenth century. It figures in the round just yet in their natural attitudes are presented in a certain position whose action seems to start or end to end, as with the character of "Fair".

Landscapes made in port areas dominated by industrial buildings impersonal architecture and other technology innovators. They are treated with a certain coldness in planes with predominance of straight lines forming surfaces runs, only broken by the addition of a solitary tree. Highlights including "The stream Vega" (1930).

Also performed naked highlight of "Susanna and the Elders" (1920), a large oil where the woman's body is illuminated with a twilight where the character's black braid down the center of the body, while other characters in the observed from the mean greedy shadow box background. To end with Alfredo Guttero, we can say it was an artist who not only became interested in painting but also became interested in music, not a single technique applied to his paintings, but used different techniques to shape modernism in its works.

References

↑ Argentina 80 years of painting, pre-Impressionism to the newest configuration, Cordova Iturburu, Oxford Bookstore City, Buenos Aires 1981, numbered

 

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