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Eduardo Macentyre

En Violeta, 1966

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Description

Maker

Title

En Violeta

Year

1966

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

Dimensions

80 x 80 cm (31 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Unsigned

Type

Credit

Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art

Object Number

68.060

Projects & Publications

Publications

The First America

Selections From the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Latin American Art

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Modern and Contemporary Galleries

In this work, an intricate, intertwined pattern is rendered in violet against a stark black background. Dynamic, abstract, and geometric, it creates a sense of illusion and physical dimension characteristic of Arte Generativo (Generative Art), a group Mac Entyre founded with Miguel Angel Vidal in Argentina in 1959. This painting embodies Arte Generativo’s enthusiasm for mathematically rigorous linearity to “generate” a sense of scientific movement and organic form.

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