Idilio campero

During Figari’s youth his family spent time at a farm in what now is downtown Tres Cruces, with a shore on the bay, which was later filled and urbanized. In this almost rural area Figari had views of society that were later the subjects of his paintings: Afro-American communities, army barracks, and slums. For a time he painted mostly landscapes, often nocturnes, without human figures. Around 1919, his pictorial maturity began when he painted almost exclusively on straw colored cardboard that always appears between brushstrokes.