Artist: Lino Claro Honorio Enea Spilimbergo
Date: 1930
Technique: Wood
Lino Enea Spilimbergo started work on the “Terrazas” series of which this painting forms part when he returned from Europe. In 1925, the artist set sail for Italy, a journey financed by the prize money he was awarded at the Salón Nacional. The careful observation of works by Renaissance masters formed the basis for Spilimbergo’s compositions from this point until the end of his career. Before heading back to Argentina, the artist visited Paris, where he took classes in modern art with cubist André Lhote. Modern ideas with Renaissance overtones gave his work a distinctive quality at once solid and novel, patent in these small works where Spilimbergo places imprecise figures vaguely suggestive of Italian Madonnas in unstable spaces. He was associated with surrealism and metaphysical painting thanks to the unsettling atmosphere of his works. A masterful drafts- man, Spilimbergo was also an outstanding printmaker and muralist. He worked with David Alfaro Siqueiros on
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