Eduardo Mac Entyre
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Eduardo Mac Entyre (20 February 1929 – 5 May 2014[1]) was an Argentine artist known for his geometric paintings.[2]
Born in
Scottish father and Belgian mother, Mac Entyre began pursuing his talent for sketches at the age of twenty. Studying standards like Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein and Rembrandt, he later began exploring impressionist and cubist
influences and his work was first displayed in 1954 at Buenos Aires' Comte Art Gallery.
Calling the attention of local arts patron
Benoît Mandelbrot
.
Sketched until relatively recently by hand following a series of random
Leonardo Fibonacci's 13th-century nautilus designs – though Mac Entyre's are more complex owing to their randomness, as each work forms a helix alike in no two sketches. Mac Entyre created a body of more traditional Abstract, Cubist and Figurative art. He was honored by the Organization of American States in 1986 for his contribution to Modern Art in Latin America. [citation needed
]
References
- ^ Arteaga, Alicia de (5 May 2014). "Murió Eduardo Mac Entyre". La Nación (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 6 May 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ^ Rubin, Ida Ely (2008). "Mac Entyre, Eduardo (1929–2014)profile at the". Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
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