Composición

Esteban Lisa1935/1940

Details

Title: Composición
Creator: Esteban Lisa
Creator Lifespan: 1895 - 1983
Creator Nationality: Spanish
Creator Gender: Male
Creator Death Place: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Creator Birth Place: Hinojosa de San Vicente, Toledo, Spain
Date Created: 1935/1940
Title translation: Composition
Physical Dimensions: w9 x h11.81 in
About the Work: Together with Juan Del Prete and Joaquín Torres-García, Esteban Lisa is one of the pioneers of abstraction in Latin America. However, this fact is mostly unknown, because until very recently he was an unrecognized figure. Esteban Lisa considered himself first and foremost a thinker and a teacher, not a conventional art teacher, but an idealist and a humanist who believed that the production of abstract art informed by philosophy, science, aesthetics, music and ethics, could be the basis for spiritual enlightenment and creativity. His works were typically produced in small formats and developed daily, as an intimate and constant investigation into abstraction. In 1955 Lisa founded the Escuela de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires “Las cuatro dimensiones,” an institution that reflects the artist’s strongly held belief that Einstein’s theory of the fourth dimension and Kant’s notion of space-time were the key to a profound form of spiritual abstraction.
Type: Painting
Rights: Gift of Fundación Esteban Lisa
External Link: Museum of Latin American Art
Medium: Oil on cardboard

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