Artvee
  • Browse
    • Abstract
    • Figurative
    • Landscape
    • Illustration
    • Posters
    • Religion
    • Mythology
    • Drawings
    • Still Life
    • Animals
    • Botanical
    • Asian Art
  • Books
  • Artists
  • Explore
    • Topics
    • Culture
    • Movements
  • Highlights
  • Collections
  • Galleries
  • Artvee Pro
Login
Artvee
Menu
Joaquín Torres-García
Joaquín Torres-García

Joaquín Torres-García

Uruguayan, 1874-1949
Follow

Joaquín Torres García was an Uruguayan/Spanish artist. He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on July 28, 1874. As an adolescent he emigrated to Catalunya, Spain,where he initiated his career as an artist in 1891. For the next three decades, he embraced Catalan identity leading Barcelona’s and Europe's art and culture to its utmost vanguards. A ‘renaissance or universal man’; painter, sculptor, muralist, novelist, writer, teacher and theorist. He was also active in United States, Italy, France and Uruguay from where his influence encompasses a personal presence in European, North American and South American modern art. He dealt the eternal dilemma between the old and the modern, the classical and the avant-garde, reason and feeling, figuration and abstraction with a simple and brilliant metaphor: there is no contradiction or incompatibility. Like Goethe, he seeks the integration between classicism and modernity.

He is known for his collaboration with Gaudi in 1903 on the stained glass windows for the Palma Cathedral and the Sagrada Família. He decorated with monumental frescoes the medieval Palau de la Generalitat seat of the Catalan government. His art is associated with archaic universal cultures; Mediterranean cultural traditions, Noucentisme, and Modern Classicism. He developed a unique style first described as ‘Art Constructif’ while living in Paris’ 1930's. Arte Constructivo (Constructive Art), a school he opened in Madrid, will be continued as Universalismo Constructivo (Universal Constructivism), a treaty he published in South-America while teaching through his workshop schools “Asociación de Arte Constructivo” (Constructive Art Association) and ‘El Taller Torres-Garcia’. A unique style encompassing classic/archaic traditions with XX century's isms: Cubism, Dada, Neo plasticism, Primitivisme, Surrealism, Abstraction.

As a theoretician he published more than one hundred and fifty books, essays and articles written in Catalan, Spanish, French, English. In his lifetime he gave more than 500 lectures. An indefatigable teacher, Torres founded several art schools in Spain and Montevideo and numerous art groups including the first European abstract art group and magazine Cercle et Carré (circle and square) in Paris in 1929.

Retrospectives in Paris in 1955 and Amsterdam in 1961 are the earliest to document historically the place of Torres-García in the currents of abstract art. In the United States he exhibited in New York's 1920s when the Whitney Studio Club, The Society of Independent artists and the Societe Anonyme were giving their first steps. In the 1930s Albert Eugene Gallatin exhibited his work in the Museum of Living Art with Modern masters; Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, etc. The Museum of Modern Art opened its Latin American collection exhibition in the 1940s with the acquisition of his works. perspective.

62 items

Show 30 50 70
Fourteenth Street (Business Town)

Fourteenth Street (Business Town) (1920)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Pintura

Pintura (1928)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Pintura constructiva

Pintura constructiva (1929)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Arte universal

Arte universal (1943)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Cathedral construction

Cathedral construction (1931)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
City Hall (N.Y.)

City Hall (N.Y.) (1942)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Ciudad

Ciudad (1941)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Composición con figuras

Composición con figuras (1928)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Composición

Composición (1928)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Contraste

Contraste (1931)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
El hombre

El hombre (1932)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Estructura constructiva con formas geométricas

Estructura constructiva con formas geométricas (1943)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Formas abstractas

Formas abstractas (1929)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Gare

Gare (1928)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Interior

Interior (1928)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Pintura constructiva

Pintura constructiva (ca 1929)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Formas

Formas (1933)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
La Gare

La Gare (1930)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Retrato de hombre (Pasteur)

Retrato de hombre (Pasteur) (1946)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Figurative
Figuras

Figuras (1928)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Figurative
Figura de hombre

Figura de hombre (1926-1928)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Figurative
Pintura

Pintura (1932)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Pintura

Pintura (1928)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Naturaleza muerta

Naturaleza muerta (1947)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Pintura constructiva

Pintura constructiva (1943)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Pintura constructiva

Pintura constructiva (1929)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Pintura constructiva

Pintura constructiva (1928)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Pintura constructiva

Pintura constructiva (1929)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Paisaje de playa

Paisaje de playa (1924)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
Paisaje de ciudad

Paisaje de ciudad (1918)

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949)
Abstract
  • ←
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • →

0 Artworks
Follow
Facebook Twitter Pinterest
Favourite
Collect

Standard, JPG, Size:

Download

Max Size, JPG, Size:

Download
License: All public domain files can be freely used for personal and commercial projects. .
Why is this image in the public domain?
  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Contact us
Artvee.com 2024 All Rights Reserved
We use cookies to improve your experience on our website. By browsing this website, you agree to our use of cookies.
More info Accept
  • Sign in
  • Browse
    • Abstract
    • Figurative
    • Landscape
    • Illustration
    • Posters
    • Religion
    • Mythology
    • Drawings
    • Still Life
    • Animals
    • Botanical
    • Asian Art
  • Artists
  • Books
  • Explore
    • Topics
    • Culture
    • Movements
  • Highlights
  • Collections
  • Galleries
  • Artvee Pro