Tomas Maldonado (1922)
Aliases:
Tomás Maldonado;
Tomàs Maldonado
Professions:
Painter
Biography
(b
buenos
aires,
24
april
1922).
argentine
painter,
graphic
designer,
teacher
and
theorist.
he
studied
at
the
academia
nacional
de
bellas
artes
in
buenos
aires
from
1938.
in
1944
he
was
a
co-founder
of
the
argentine
avant-garde
review
arturo
,
which
was
concerned
with
both
art
and
literature
and
led
to
the
formation
in
1945
of
the
asociaciÓn
arte
concreto
invenciÓn,
of
which
he
was
also
one
of
the
main
instigators.
in
1948
he
travelled
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(b buenos aires, 24 april 1922). argentine painter, graphic designer, teacher and theorist. he studied at the academia nacional de bellas artes in buenos aires from 1938. in 1944 he was a co-founder of the argentine avant-garde review arturo , which was concerned with both art and literature and led to the formation in 1945 of the asociaciÓn arte concreto invenciÓn, of which he was also one of the main instigators. in 1948 he travelled to europe, where he came into contact with max bill and other swiss constructivists, whose example inspired him both as a painter and as a theorist on his return to argentina. blue with structure and a form and series (both 1950, buenos aires, mus. a. mod.) are typical of a rigorous type of painting with which he became identified. he stressed the application of such ideas, moreover, not only to art but also to social and political concerns, seeking nothing less than the transformation of the physical environment in which we live. such convictions gave coherence to all his activities from that time on, including his co-founding in 1951 of nueva visión , a review of visual culture, and his membership from 1952 of the artistas modernos de la argentina.
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