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Eduardo Macentyre

En Violeta, 1966

Now On View

Description

Maker

  • Eduardo Macentyre, 1929 - 2014, Argentine

Title

En Violeta

Year

1966

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

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

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Unsigned

Type

  • Paintings

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

Del Nuevo Mundo

June 17 - September 4, 1988

The Nancy Sayles Day Collection

January 4 - February 6, 1977

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.

Paula and Leonard Granoff Galleries

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