BRUZZONE, ALBERTO (1907-1994)

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"Señora Turner" (1948)
oil on canvas
cm
signed lower left
*the artist's niece
 
Bruzzone is an award-winning Argentinian Expressionist. He entered the old National Academy of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires in 1926, under the instruction of Pío Collivadino. In 1929 he held his first individual exhibition at the "Casa de España" in the city of San Juan. In 1935 he was a member of the Argentine Society of Plastic Artists, & he was a member of its board of directors. In 1941 he graduated as a painting teacher & continued studying mural painting under the direction of Alfredo Guido and Dante Ortolani, engraving with Alfredo Guido and Adolfo Belocq & sculpture with Carlos de la Cárcova & Enrique Soto Avendario. 1946 he was a founding member & president of the Group of Graduates & Students of the Higher School of Fine Arts. In 1953 he won first prize in the First Salon of Plastic Arts for Peace, which included a studying scholarship to Europe. Starting in the 1960s he affirmed that the essence of art is not competitive, withdrawing from participation in salons. He actively participated in the artistic-cultural movement of a particularly fruitful era, marked by avant-garde currents, including surrealism, cubism & Mexican muralism. Years later Bruzzone, together with his colleagues & friends Berni, Castagnino, Policastro, Urruchúa & Spilimbergo were the managers of a movement defined as "River Plate realism." This generation forged an Argentine pictorial identity of the 20th century.  In the '60s, already in his artistic maturity, he settled in the City of Mar del Plata. For 30 years & protected by a fluid relationship with the community that surrounded him, Bruzzone dedicated himself exclusively to the study of painting, creating his best & most fruitful work. In 1968, he was named honorary member of the Argentine Society of Plastic Artists & the Mar del Plata Association of Plastic Artists. His house & studio in Mar Del Plata is now a museum dedicated to Bruzzone's artistic legacy, Casa Bruzzone. This gorgeous portrait depicts Bruzzone's sister-in-law after the end of World War II.