Joaquin Torres-Garcia
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Joaquín Torres García (28 July 1874 – 8 August 1949) was an Uruguayan / Spanish artist ("l'artista uruguaianocatalà Joaquim Torres Garcia"), was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on July 28, 1874. As an adolescent he emigrated to Catalunya, Spain,where he initiated his career as an artist in 1891. For the next three decades, he embraced Catalan identity leading Barcelona’s and Europe's art and culture to its utmost vanguards. A ‘renaissance or universal man’; painter, sculptor, muralist, novelist, writer, teacher and theorist. He was also active in United States, Italy, France and Uruguay from where his influence encompasses a personal presence in European, North American and South American modern art. He dealt the eternal dilemma between the old and the modern, the classical and the avant-garde, reason and feeling, figuration and abstraction with a simple and brilliant metaphor: there is no contradiction or incompatibility. Like Goethe, he seeks the integration between classicism and modernity.
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28 July 1874 Montevideo, Uruguay
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| Died |
8 August 1949 (aged 75) Montevideo, Uruguay
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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