Joaquín Torres-García belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Joaquín Torres-García as Spanish Uruguayan painter, sculptor, writer and theorist of modern art (1874-1949).
Joaquín Torres-García was born at Montevideo in 1874. His recorded nationality is Uruguay.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the movements arrived in quick succession, each defining itself against the last.
He worked as professor, painter and sculptor.
His recorded movement is abstract art and universal constructivism.
His best-known work is América Invertida. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in Uruguay shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Joaquín Torres-García died in 1949, aged 75. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: América Invertida
- Movement: abstract art and Universal Constructivism
