Sin título (Still life)

OSCAR GARCÍA REINO. (1910-1993). Painter. He trained at the Circle of Fine Arts, with Guillermo Laborde and Severino Pose, and later with Joaquín Torres García and Carlos Prevosti. He was a member of Grupo 8 (1959-62), together with Vicente Martín, Miguel Ángel Pareja, Carlos Páez Vilaró, Raúl Pavlotzky, Lincoln Presno, Américo Spósito, Alfredo Testoni, Julio Verdié and Hans Platschek, and at the Paul Cézanne Group (1939), with Dante Constábile, Mario C. Pérez Cassia, Alfredo Tedeschi, Luis Bausero, Ernesto Pinto, Pablo Serrano, Vicente Martín, Francisco Matto and Francisco Vieytes. He participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and received distinctions such as the First Prize Gold Medal at the National Salon of Plastic Arts (1954, 1963 and 1964). Initially, his production is linked to the training orientation of post-cubism mannerism, spread by André Lhote. He then tends toward a refined abstraction —with certain elements of figuration—, in which que recreates port landscapes, seascapes, Montevideo skylights, still lifes and female portraits with a strong melancholic atmosphere. His work is charged with a strong lyrical power and a contradictory and anguished soul, which does not hide its romantic conception. Sin título (still life) (Untitled IADB# 0300) demonstrates his sculptural handling of forms and his palette of dominant grays, generally interrupted by touches of color, which emphasize the plastic character of the work.