Rio de la Plata Allegory

"Return to order", "modern classicism", "new art", "new sensibility" are some of the denominations constructed at the time to delimit the characteristics of the images that artists configured during what we recognize today as the period between the two world wars. The recovery of a naturalistic figuration is one of the marks of this process. In those years, different artists working in different cultural metropolis of Europe and America, a new kind of figuration can be observed, ranging from the disturbing climates of metaphysical painting and the new objectivity to monumental classicism, passing through a sensual apprehension of forms that often reaches results close to decorative. Within this last variant it is possible to situate Alfredo Guttero's researches, and this nude is an eloquent example. The silhouette of the woman is sharply cut with a thick line that, in turn, runs through it defining the face, breasts, abdomen and pubis. Thus, in a simple way, through the line and the way color and matter are imposed, with little detail, the features, the hands, the volume of the muscles are described. The movement given by the axes of the shoulders, waist and hips provides a rhythmic presence that organizes the figure. The inclination of the head and the blue cloth complement it. The background offers a certain vibration in the way of superimposing semi-open volumes. This condition distinguishes it from the figure, insofar as the solidity of the woman's image converges with that of the cloth: a solid volume that, nevertheless, is imagined as enveloping.