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| JOAQUÍN TORRES-GARCÍA Born in Montevideo, Uruguay on July 28, 1874; died in Montevideo, August 8, 1949 In 1891 his family left Uruguay and moved to Cataluña, Spain, native home of his father's family; in 1893 studied at the Academia de Bellas Arts and at the Academia Baixas; joined the Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc; met Joan and Julio González; 1907 saw Puvis de Chavannes' drawings for his murals in the Pantheon of Paris at an exhibition of French art; discovered the early Renaissance Italian painters and Hellenistic art, taught at the progressive children's school Mont d'Or; 1909 married Manolita Piña de Rubiés; 1910 visited Puvis de Chavannes' mural at the Pantheon in Paris; 1912 studied fresco painting in Florence and Rome; 1913 wrote and published Notes sobre art, his first book of artistic theory, encouraging a return to a Greco-Roman tradition; 1914-1917 left Barcelona and settled in Tarrasa at Vila Mon Repos; 1917 met fellow Uruguayan artist Rafael Barradas; published the manifesto Art evolutió; Joan Miró began visiting Torres; 1920 left Spain for New York, via Paris and Brussels; visited Pablo Picasso in Paris; 1920-1922 lived in New York; received moral and financial support from Isabelle Whitney; formed friendships with Edgar Varése, Jean Xceron; exhibited with Stuart Davis; 1922 returned to Europe and settled in Fiesole, Italy; 1924 moved to Livorno and later Villefranche-sur-Mer, southern France; 1926 settled in Paris; met the painter Luis Fernández through Julio González; 1928 met Theo Van Doesburg; visited the exhibition Les artes anciens de l'Amérique at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs; 1929 met Piet Mondrian, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Jacques Lipchitz, Le Corbusier and Michel Seuphor; sent his children to study with Amedée Ozenfant; became interested in Purism; painted his first Constructivist works; 1930 founded Cercle et Carré with Michel Seuphor; 1932 moved with his family to Madrid; tried unsuccessfully to introduce modern art in Madrid and failed to form a school of constructivist art; 1934 returned with his family to Montevideo; wrote his autobiography, Historia de mi vida, founded the Asociation of Constructive Art (AAC); 1936 began publication of Círculo y Cuadrado, second series of Cercle et Carré. 1943 founded El Taller Torres-García; 1944 painted seven large murals at the St. Bois Hospital. In addition to creating many of his most important works, Torres-García spent his Montevideo years giving public lectures, writing newspaper articles and several books on modern art and artists, organizing cultural events and teaching and inspiring the best and brightest of the region's young artists. Selected One-Person Shows:
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