Pío Collivadino
Pío Collivadino | |
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Post-impressionist | |
Awards | Gold medal, Universal Exposition of 1904 Order of the Crown of Italy, 1905 |
Pío Collivadino (August 20, 1869 – August 26, 1945) was an Argentine painter of the
Life and work
Pío Collivadino was born in
He returned to Argentina in 1896 and became known for his romanticist lithographs. Colllivadino attended three international festivals in Venice, from 1903 to 1907, where his La hora del reposo (Workday Break, 1903), also known as La hora del almuerzo (Lunch break time) earned a gold medal. He was also at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, in St. Louis, where he earned a silver and a gold medal.[2]
These successes encouraged him to transition to Post-impressionism, a genre which had not yet found favor among Argentine art patrons, and he joined the Nexus Group in 1907. The group, led by painters
Collivadino remained sought-after in Argentina, and served in numerous art juries. He was named Director of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1908, and was prominent in Buenos Aires'
He helped organize the
A 1946 young graduate of the Prilidiano Pueyrredón School of Fine Arts and one of Collivadino's last students, famed painter, cartoonist, journalist and author Geno Díaz (Eugenio Díaz del Bo), described those circumstances in his 1984 autobiography, stating that:
On the 4th of June [1943], the revolution erupted and expelled the school’s director, don Pío Collivadino, a man of a great technical knowledge, a distinguished artist who had devoted his life to the School. He was cruelly replaced by one of those incompetent perverts, and the illustrious elderly master died of sadness. It was one more crime, among many others, of fascism in Argentina.[5]
The noted painter and teacher died in Buenos Aires, in 1945, at age 76.
Bibliography
- Scocco, Graciela. Imágenes de Buenos Aires en la obra de Pìo Collivadino. Una interpretaciòn desde las noticias a la plàstica. En: Saavedra, Marìa Inès. "La ciudad revelada. Lecturas de Buenos Aires: urbanismo, estètica y crìtica de arte en La Naciòn, 1915-1925". Buenos Aires, Editorial Vestales, 2004
References
- ^ a b Biografías y vidas: Pío Collivadino (in Spanish)
- ^ a b c Parker, William Belmont. Argentines of Today. New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1920.
- ^ Arte de la Argentina: Collivadino
- ^ Crawley, Eduardo. A House Divided: Argentina, 1880-1980. St. Martin's Press, 1985.
- ^ Díaz, Geno (Eugenio Geno Díaz), Genocidio II, Emecé Editores, S.A., Buenos Aires, 1985, page 20. (Spanish).