Willendorf’s half-sister painting by Quoï Alexander

Tango Helter-Skelter, 2023 by Quoï ALEXANDER, Tokyo and Paris. From the series Discarnate Positions, presented in 2024 at 'ROSTOS' in Melides, Portugal. Alexander presents an idea ...

Flat vase in Shiny Black. Designed by Project 213A in 2021. Handmade Stoneware. Creation demands destruction, taking the old and the typical to conceive th...

Fay Singer, (1927-2015). A graduate of Western Reserve University and UC Berkeley. She is a lifelong figurative painter and activist, who had a strong incli...

Inscribed Cecilia Josuan, Colegio de N. S. del Huerto, Buenos Aires, 1896 A rare “fixé sous verre” painting using a combined technique of chromolithography for the faces and hands, and silk embroidery for the clothes and background drape. Representing three women holding each other’s hands. Chromolithography technique uses thin paper motifs glued and varnished to integrate its support. Along from the rich Spanish legacy, Argentina is also very influenced since 19th century by European culture, notably Italian. Traces of American Indian culture are harder to find than in the other Latin America countries. During 19th century, with the National pride appears Argentina specific cultural themes. The Gaucho character, keeping the cattle in the Pampas, is recurrent in literature and particularly in poetry: Fausto (1866), by Estanilaslao del Campo, or Martin Fierro (1872), by José Hernandez, often considered to be an hymn to the Pampa. Painting also celebrates this genre with the works of painter Prilidiano Pueyrredon (1823-1870). At the beginning of 19th century, painters in Latin America and particularly in Argentina are foreigners (French, Germans and British) named Costumbristas, painting folkloric landscapes and portraits much appreciated in Europe. During second part of 19th century, a national painting appears with internationally renowned painters such as Prilidiano Pueyrredon, Angel de La Valle...