MI OPINIÓN SOBRE LA EXPOSICIÓN DE ARTISTAS NORTEAMERICANOS: CONTRIBUCIÓN AL PROBLEMA DEL ARTE EN AMÉRICA

Montevideo: La Industrial Grafica Uruguaya, 1942. b/w pict. wrps. Lecture delivered on September 5, 1941, in Montevideo, on modern North American (United States) artists by noted painter and father of Constructivism, Joaquin Torres Garcia. It contains many aspects of his theory for the new Latin American art, including his convictions that American artists must embody the new man, that new art forms must come from ingenous sources, and that these sources must be delved into to extract new abstract forms, new rhythms, and tonalities. In this text, Torres García emphasizes that this new man or new race encompasses the entire hemisphere, that is, Latin America and Anglo-Saxon America. Among the artists discussed are John Kane (1860-1934), William James Glackens (1870-1938), Jack Levine (1915-2010), Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858-1924), George Grosz (1893-1959), Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Jacob Getlar Smith (1898-1958), Max Weber (1881-1961), Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), Charles Demuth (1883-1935), Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) and others.