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URUGUAY COUNTRY OF ARTISTS |
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The Art in Uruguay |
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From
the map of South America, which Joaquín Torres García
placed head over heels in 1935 to the present, many liters of painting
have run on canvas and papers. As a consequence of the exulting work
of a whole generation of artists who have forged an ecclectic, fertile
and vast world, intensity, colour, enormous or tiny surfaces of dense
material have arisen. |
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A
few weeks after the inauguration of a web page called www.arteuy.com,
in which the work of more than hundred artists has been systematized,
Brasil awaits the arival of an exhibition wich acts as a sample of
what is being created in Uruguay; while Montevideo hosts at its Museum
of Modern Art the National Hall of Visual Arts, in wich more than
five hundred artists show their creations. All this within the context
of a country which has no more than three million inhabitants. |
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After
the decade of the 1980s, when Uruguay leaves behind the years of a
military dictatorship, the country has changed. Artists have moved
harmoniously with the new trends and, in their turn have changed THE
AUREO COMPASS, the low palette and the constructive canon, for a free
expression of gesture and chromatic intensity. From hence a new generation
of painters formed in the different FACTORIES- WORKSHOPS wich replaced
the Escuela de Bellas Artes, have emerged. These men and women have
produced work with high CHROMATISM and dense suject-matter. Bizarre
faces, humans and animals whose shapes have moved far from their "real
images", objects, assemblages, collages, imaginary, fabolous
and magical worlds, quotas of Surrealism, Neo- Expressionism and Pop
Art, have all become part of the imagery of the Uruguayan plastic
artists. |
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Violent
palettes directed towards multiple directions, sharp incisions, altered
relations os scales, overflowing CHROMATISM, soaking objects and vehement
stains, have lived with other more peaceful and minimalist expressions
full of sparkles of humour and spirituality. It all happened at the
right time, the Uruguayan culture was seeking new styles and abroad
new vogues were developing. |
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Joaquín
Torres García is still worshipped by some, others have moved
away from him and his school. The result is ecclecticism, intense
CHROMATISM, TEXTURED or smooth surfaces expressing every individual´s
personal freedom. In Uruguay plastic artists are not tied to the establishment.
They are all looking for what is most important: a free expression
of their souls. |
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