La Boca

The most picturesque neighborhood of Buenos Aires, La Boca, has been represented in the painting by many artists. By the end of 1920, an artistic group called “Grupo de La Boca” was formed. VICTOR CUNSOLO is the artist I like the best in this group. He was born in Italy, but he moved to Argentina in his adolescence.

The paintings I include belong to his maturity stage, when he leaves impressionist characteristics to start building definite and synthetic structures, static, silent and without characters. The essential of the expressive motif appears and, even though it is kept in the figuration, the objects acquire a “modern” touch because of the influence of the Metaphysical painting of Italian origin.

Cunsolo’s is one of the many possible ways to capture this special landscape, almost unique of Buenos Aires, which is the neighborhood of La Boca. Quinquela Martin’s Museum is located in the neighborhood, where other artists that worked on the same themes are exhibited.

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