Joaquín Torres García

Joaquín Torres García ( born July 28, 1874 in Montevideo, Uruguay; † August 8, 1949 ibid, also Joaquín Torres - García ) was a Uruguayan painter.

Life

Just over half of his life spent outside of his home country Joaquín Torres García. Since his father was a poor shop assistants, he was taught by his mother in terms of knowledge. 1891 emigrated to the 17 -year-old with the family in the home of the father of Catalan; until 1934 he returned to Uruguay. He received at the Escuela Oficial de Bellas Artes de Barcelona ( Llotja ) his artistic training. In this city he lived by 1892 until 1914. From 1897 on, he worked as an illustrator for magazines such as the religious Revista Popular and various books. The drawings of the next few years have a coined by Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec style. He received commissions for wall and window murals in churches and other public buildings and the Uruguayan pavilion at the World Exhibition in Brussels in 1910. In 1909 he married Manolita Piña de Rubíes, with whom he had four children.

In New York, where he moved in 1920, he tried to manufacture designed by him wooden toys and marketing. After two years he left New York and returned to Europe, where he first lived in Italy. From there he went to France in 1924. Until 1926, Torres García lived in Villefranche -sur -Mer near Nice, then in Paris. In the French capital he shared with Jean Hélion a studio and founded in 1930 with Michel Seuphor the group Cercle et Carré. During this time he began to be interested in prehistoric, primitive and pre-Columbian art and developed his Universalismo Constructivo. An example from this period is his painting estructure avec forme T from 1930. Advised Financially under increasing pressure in 1932 he left Paris and went to Madrid.

From there he returned in 1934, after 43 years of absence, in his South American homeland. In Montevideo, founded Torres García, the Asociación de Arte Constructivo (AAC ), gave drawing lessons and devoted himself to spreading his artistic and aesthetic theory of a specifically Latin American art. From this period his painted Objecto construído of wood ( 1938) with the dimensions of 87 x 11 cm.

Exhibitions

Writings

• Notes sobre Art. Barcelona 1913.
• Diàlegs. Terrassa 1915.
• El sí mismo de descubrimiento. Girona 1917.
• Estructura. , 1935.
• Historia de mi Vida. Montevideo 1939.
• Universalismo Constructivo: contribución a la Unification del arte y la cultura de América. , 1943.