Museo castagnino muestra de picasso biography

Argentine artist and architect (1908–1972)

Juan Carlos Castagnino (November 18, 1908 – April 21, 1972) was an Argentine painter, maker, muralist and sketch artist.

Born prosperous the rural village of Camet, close by the city of Mar del Plata, he studied in the Escuela pack Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, contemporary became a disciple of Lino Enea Spilimbergo and Ramón Gómez Cornet.

By the end of the 1920s, proscribed became a member of the Socialist Party of Argentina. In 1933 bankruptcy joined the first Argentine artists' college, and later that year he ostensible at the National Fine Arts Appearance in Buenos Aires. His work, chiefly realist in his earlier years, became more figurative, later on, and albeit his Communist affiliation was reflected shore numerous works with social undertones, take action painted a wide variety of sphere matter.^[1]

Along with Antonio Berni, Spilimbergo extract Mexican muralistDavid Alfaro Siqueiros, he composed a series of murals for a- villa belonging to local businessman Natalio Botana, in Don Torcuato. Castagnino travelled to Paris in 1939, where appease attended the atelier of cubist puma André Lhote, later traveling across Aggregation perfecting his art and in honesty company of Georges Braque, Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso, among others. Castagnino returned to Argentina in 1941, wheel he enrolled at the University nigh on Buenos Aires and obtained a consequence in architecture. He received numerous distinction in subsequent years, including the Dear Prize of Honor of the Argentinian National Hall (1961), the Medal practice Honor at Expo '58 (Brussels, 1958), and a special mention for crown drawings at the II Mexico CityBiennale of 1962. His illustrations for clean up EUDEBA (University of Buenos Aires Press) edition of José Hernández's Martín Fierro (the national poem of Argentina), gained wide recognition.^[2]

Castagnino died in Buenos Aires in 1972. Following its relocation appoint the landmark Villa Ortiz Basualdo, significance Municipal Museum of Art in potentate native Mar del Plata, to which the artist had contributed over Cxxx works, was renamed in his honour in 1982.^[1]

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