Artistas plásticos del sur
"VISUAL ARTISTS OF SOUTH AMERICA" ENGLISH VERSION
Xul Solar
(1887-1963)
El artista plástico Alejandro Xul Solar nació en la provincia de Buenos Aires en 1887. Xul Solar siempre tuvo una mente genial y creativa. En los años 20, conoció al gran escritor Jorge Luís Borges y se hicieron gran amigos.
El día del conmemorativo de Xul Solar, Borges dijó que casí cada tarde iba a la casa de su amiga para hablar y para compartir ideas.
Parece que estes hombres jugaban como niños listos. Juntos creaban el juego panajedrez y armaban el idioma panlengua. Inspirado en Xul Solar, en 1941 Borges escribió su famoso cuento "La Biblioteca de Babel" que se trataba de filosofía y de matemáticas
y que preveía el problema físico espacio/tiempo.
En sus cuadros, Xul Solar quería mostrar la Metafísica y la Mística en líneas delicadas y colores felices. Por lo tanto las pinturas fantasías de Xul Solar tenía mas que ver con las obras del pintor europeo Paul Klee o del pintor uruguayo Torres García que con los surrealistas con quienes Xul Solar es agrupado. Xul Solar murió en Argentina en 1963. Su casa en Calle Laprida convirtió al museo en 1993.
¿Por qué "Artistas plásticos del sur"?
Aunque Argentina y los Estados Unidos compartan raíces europeas, los artistas de cada país hayan elegido tomar caminos distintos. Los artistas argentinos mantuvieron una fuerte personalidad del país--pero no como artistas regionales sino como artistas con una conciencia mundial. Para un coleccionista norteamericano o europeo es como entrar en un universo paralelo--familiar, pero no parecido. Entonces, en estos artículos, Biddingtons trata de presentar algunos de los artistas argentinos, uruguayos y chilenos mas importantes del siglos XX y XXI.
Xul Solar
"Pan Arbol"
Aquarelle, 1954
The visual artist Alejandro Xul Solar was born in greater Buenos Aires in 1887. Xul Solar always had the creative mind of a genius. In the 1920's, Xul Solar met the brilliant Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, and the two men became fast friends.
Speaking at a memorial service commemorating the life of Xul Solar, Borges recalled going nearly every afternoon to Xul Solar's house to talk and to share ideas. From Borges' eloquent and heartfelt words, it is apparent that the two were real playmates--rather like extraordinarily clever children. Together they devised a three-dimensional chess game they dubbed "panajedrez"; they also constructed a panlengua--a language combining Romance, English and Arabic sources. Inspired by Xul Solar, in 1941, Borges wrote his famous short story entitled "The Library at Babel". This work deals with philosophy, mathematics and the physics problem of space/time.
In his paintings, Xul Solar attempted to convey ideas about the metaphysical and the mystical using delicately drawn lines and joyous colors. In the past, Xul Solar's style of fantasy painting has been arbitrarily labeled as "surrealist". In fact, Xul Solar's works have more in common with those of European expressionist painter Paul Klee (1879-1940) or with Uruguayan painter Joaquín Torres Garcia (1874-1949).
Xul Solar died in Argentina in 1963. In 1993, his house on Laprida Street in Buenos Aires was redesigned and transformed into a handsome museum devoted to showing Xul Solar's paintings and inventions.
About Visual Artists of South America
Even though Argentina and the US share European roots, the artists in these countries have chosen to follow different aesthetic paths. In their artworks, Argentinean artists have maintained a strong national character, not merely as regional artists but instead as painters and sculptors with an international consciousness. For North American and European collectors and students, South American art represents a parallel universe--familiar, but not quite the same. This series of articles is designed to introduce some of the key 20th and 21st century visual artists from Argentina, Uruguay and Chile to a broader audience.
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