JOAQUÍN TORRES GARCIA

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Joaquín Torres Garcia (1874-1949) was Uruguayan Painter, muralist, illustrator, sculptor, theorist and teacher. He moved to Spain in 1891, where he studied at Academia de belles artes de Barcelona, and the Academia Baixas. He became affiliated with Noucentisme, a movement that opposed modernism. Its members called for the development of a Catalan cultural identity. He explored pre-Columbian art. as the basis for an American Modernism.

After settling in Paris (1926) he expounded Universal Constructivism (Universalismo constructivo), a style of painting that combined a grid like, abstract structure with symbolic images.

Torres-Garcia’s works evolved to incorporate elements of both Cubism and Constructivism, with a distinct quality of his own. The architectural sense in his painting had distinct dissociation from the colour. Both, flourished as two separate entities aided by geometric abstraction. Joan Miró was a student of Torres-García in Barcelona, and he acknowledged his teacher's influence.

 

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TAVIK FRANTISEK SIMON

 

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T F Simon (1877-1942) was a Czech painter, print-maker, academician and writer. He studied at the Prague Academy of Arts and later at Dalmatia and Italy. Simon lived in Paris from 1904 to 1914, and in Prague thereafter. From 1928, Simon was a professor at the Prague Academy of Arts and a member of the Czech Academy.

Simon travelled extensively across the globe, New York City, Prague, Czech and Slovak countryside, Paris, London, the Netherlands, Spain, Morocco, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), India, and Japan. He produced nearly 600 art works consisting of urban landscapes, markets and portraits in various mediums including woodcuts, etchings, mezzoints, dry-points and lithographs. He was impressed by the French impressionists, and many techniques of the Japanese printmaking and Graphics.

Simon was an academician and wrote extensively on all aspects of the arts and published a highly respected manual of the graphic arts.

Simon’s paintings show light in a natural form on the subject from an unusual visual angle. Simon brought his paintings to life using small visible brushstrokes and vivid colours.

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GIOVANNI PAOLO PANINI

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Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691-1765) was an Italian painter and architect. He also worked with stage scenery, Fresco decoration of palaces, and was a good figure painter. Panini was a professor of perspective and optics at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome and French Academy of Rome.

His works include exterior city, buildings, Roman ruins and interiors with substantial content of architectural imagination (capricci) and contemporary events and ceremonies. His good hand at figure drawing and their scaling makes scenes lively. Panini frequently repeated subjects, yet always retained his spontaneity by varying composition and details. 

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