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'''Eduardo Sívori''' (born in [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]], on [[13 October]], [[1847]]; died in Buenos Aires on [[5 June]], [[1918]]) was an Argentine artist widely regarded as his country's first [[Realism (art)|realist]] painter. |
'''Eduardo Sívori''' (born in [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]], on [[13 October]], [[1847]]; died in Buenos Aires on [[5 June]], [[1918]]) was an Argentine artist widely regarded as his country's first [[Realism (art)|realist]] painter. |
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==Life and work== |
==Life and work== |
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[[Image:El despertar de la criada - Eduardo Sívori.jpg|thumb|left|''El despertar de la criada'' ("Waking the |
[[Image:El despertar de la criada - Eduardo Sívori.jpg|thumb|left|''El despertar de la criada'' ("Waking the Servant," 1887).]] |
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Born to [[Genoa|Genovese]] immigrants in Buenos Aires, Sívori had harbored artistic leanings during childhood that, for family reasons, went unfulfilled. Asked by his father to join him on an business trip to [[Paris]] in 1874, Sívori took the opportunity to frequent Parisian [[atelier]]s. Returning to Buenos Aires, the experience drew him to other local painters, including his brother, Alejandro, [[José Aguyari]] and [[Eduardo Schiaffino]], who would later become one of Argentina's best-known [[Symbolism (arts)|symbolist]] painters. Together, they founded the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts in 1875, an important early milestone in the development of artisan [[guild]]s in Argentina. He first earned recorgnition for his ''Dolce far niente'' ("Sweet Little Nothing"), for which he was awarded a gold medal at the 1880 Continental Art Salon of Buenos Aires. Sívori returned to Paris in 1882, eventually earning an apprenticeship in the prestigious [[Jean Paul Laurens]] atelier, following which he created ''El despertar de la criada'' ("Waking the |
Born to [[Genoa|Genovese]] immigrants in Buenos Aires, Sívori had harbored artistic leanings during childhood that, for family reasons, went unfulfilled. Asked by his father to join him on an business trip to [[Paris]] in 1874, Sívori took the opportunity to frequent Parisian [[atelier]]s. Returning to Buenos Aires, the experience drew him to other local painters, including his brother, Alejandro, [[José Aguyari]] and [[Eduardo Schiaffino]], who would later become one of Argentina's best-known [[Symbolism (arts)|symbolist]] painters. Together, they founded the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts in 1875, an important early milestone in the development of artisan [[guild]]s in Argentina. He first earned recorgnition for his ''Dolce far niente'' ("Sweet Little Nothing"), for which he was awarded a gold medal at the 1880 Continental Art Salon of Buenos Aires. Sívori returned to Paris in 1882, eventually earning an apprenticeship in the prestigious [[Jean Paul Laurens]] atelier, following which he created ''El despertar de la criada'' ("Waking the Servant"), perhaps his best remembered work. Increasingly renown, his travels took him to the [[United States]], where he was awarded a second gold medal at the [[Saint Louis Exposition (1884)|St. Louis Exposition of 1884]] for ''Dolce far niente.'' |
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Sívori thereafter focused his efforts on commercial art, creating portraits and landscapes for clients, among the best-known of which was local stockbreeder Godofredo Daireaux's in 1903. His bucolic landscapes soon earned him renown as the "portraiteur of the pampas." These relationships helped result in the designation of his guild as an official entity within the National Academy of Fine Arts in 1905, of which he was named president in 1910. Eduardo Sívori died in Buenos Aires in 1918 at the age of seventy and was honored posthoumously with the naming of the new [[w:es:Museo de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sívori|Municipal Fine Arts Museum]] in his honor, in 1938. |
Sívori thereafter focused his efforts on commercial art, creating portraits and landscapes for clients, among the best-known of which was local stockbreeder Godofredo Daireaux's in 1903. His bucolic landscapes soon earned him renown as the "portraiteur of the pampas." These relationships helped result in the designation of his guild as an official entity within the National Academy of Fine Arts in 1905, of which he was named president in 1910. Eduardo Sívori died in Buenos Aires in 1918 at the age of seventy and was honored posthoumously with the naming of the new [[w:es:Museo de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sívori|Municipal Fine Arts Museum]] in his honor, in 1938. |
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Revision as of 11:57, 15 April 2009
Eduardo Sívori (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 13 October, 1847; died in Buenos Aires on 5 June, 1918) was an Argentine artist widely regarded as his country's first realist painter.
Life and work
Born to Genovese immigrants in Buenos Aires, Sívori had harbored artistic leanings during childhood that, for family reasons, went unfulfilled. Asked by his father to join him on an business trip to Paris in 1874, Sívori took the opportunity to frequent Parisian ateliers. Returning to Buenos Aires, the experience drew him to other local painters, including his brother, Alejandro, José Aguyari and Eduardo Schiaffino, who would later become one of Argentina's best-known symbolist painters. Together, they founded the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts in 1875, an important early milestone in the development of artisan guilds in Argentina. He first earned recorgnition for his Dolce far niente ("Sweet Little Nothing"), for which he was awarded a gold medal at the 1880 Continental Art Salon of Buenos Aires. Sívori returned to Paris in 1882, eventually earning an apprenticeship in the prestigious Jean Paul Laurens atelier, following which he created El despertar de la criada ("Waking the Servant"), perhaps his best remembered work. Increasingly renown, his travels took him to the United States, where he was awarded a second gold medal at the St. Louis Exposition of 1884 for Dolce far niente.
Sívori thereafter focused his efforts on commercial art, creating portraits and landscapes for clients, among the best-known of which was local stockbreeder Godofredo Daireaux's in 1903. His bucolic landscapes soon earned him renown as the "portraiteur of the pampas." These relationships helped result in the designation of his guild as an official entity within the National Academy of Fine Arts in 1905, of which he was named president in 1910. Eduardo Sívori died in Buenos Aires in 1918 at the age of seventy and was honored posthoumously with the naming of the new Municipal Fine Arts Museum in his honor, in 1938.