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San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with the Mary Kathryn Lynch Kurtz Fund for the Acquisition of Modern Latin American Art.

Constructivist View of Montevideo

San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with the Mary Kathryn Lynch Kurtz Fund for the Acquisition of Modern Latin American Art.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with the Mary Kathryn Lynch Kurtz Fund for the Acquisition of Modern Latin American Art.
Contact San Antonio Museum of Art, Registrar Department for rights and reproduction of this image. Photography by Peggy Tenison. © Julio Alpuy / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / AGADU, Uruguay

Constructivist View of Montevideo

Artist: (Uruguayan, 1919 - 2009)
Date: 1957
Dimensions:
79 x 47 1/8 in. (200.7 x 119.7 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with the Mary Kathryn Lynch Kurtz Fund for the Acquisition of Modern Latin American Art
Object number: 2011.6
Signed: Signed, proper lower right: Alpuy
Copyright: © Julio Alpuy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / AGADU, Uruguay
Provenance: Collection of the Artist, NY. purchased from the above. Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, NY, Nov. 20, 2001 lot 29. Purchased from the above by the present owner. Auction, Christie's, NY, May 26, 2011 lot 26.
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Stacked vertically, this view of Montevideo, Uruguay, portrays the essence of active urban life and emphasizes geometric forms. Julio Alpuy was a pupil and teacher at the Taller (Workshop) Torres-García in Montevideo, an art school founded by Joaquín Torres-García (whose work is on view nearby). The Taller Torres-García embraced the integration of fine art and craft and emphasized the symbolic potential of geometric abstraction, called Universal Constructivism. Alpuy’s flattened perspective and grid-like composition recall stained glass or tapestry, media that were frequently produced at the Taller.
(Lana Meador, 2020)

Apilada de forma vertical, esta vista de Montevideo, Uruguay, retrata la esencia de una activa vida urbana enfatizando las formas geométricas. Julio Alpuy fue alumno y maestro en el Taller Torres-García en Montevideo, una escuela de arte fundada por Joaquín Torres-García (cuya obra se exhibe cerca de ésta). El taller Torres-García acogió la integración de las bellas artes y el trabajo artesanal, y enfatizó el potencial simbólico de una forma de abstracción geométrica llamada Constructivismo Universal. La perspectiva plana y la composición cuadriculada del trabajo de Alpuy trae a la mente vitrales o tapices, medios que se producían con frecuencia en el Taller.
(Lana Meador, 2020)



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