Hector Basaldua
(22 Sept 1894 - 21 Feb 1976) |
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Hector Basaldua |
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Pergamino, Buenos Aires |
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Argentine |
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22 Sept 1894 |
| Death: |
21 Feb 1976 |
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painter, stage designer and illustrator |
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Biography
| He studied drawing in Buenos Aires under the Italian painter Augusto Bolognini (b 1870) and at the Academia Nacional before moving in 1923 to Paris, where he worked in Charles Guerins studio and at the Academie Colarossi. He also studied in the studios of Andre Lhote and Othon Friesz and became associated with other Argentine artists based in Paris. Like others of his generation and nationality, he sought in the 1920s to escape from pictorial provincialism by rejecting academic norms, as in Still-life. He learned how to paint while living in France and developed a range of imagery typical of Argentine art without showing any great originality.More than any other painter, Basaldua depicted life in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, concentrating humorously and without sentimentality on the wide boys, dance-hall girls, loose women and handsome, dangerous men of the tango in such pictures as the Man in the Bar (1951), The Dance (1964) and The Dream. He was also successful as an illustrator and as a stage designer; in 1933 he was appointed director of stage design at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. He became a member of the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1956 and in 1958 was appointed Director of the Fondo Nacional de las Artes. |
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