Monday, January 2, 2023

Pío Collivadino

Pío Collivadino (1869-1945) was an Argentinian artist who studied in Italy.


His painting Lunch Break (1903) was exhibited at several international festivals. 


His paintings of the industrial scene use muted colors and large gradients to achieve a feeling of mood and delicate light.


His painting Usina, or Power Plant shows workers trudging through the dawn light past an industrial building with four tall smokestacks. 

With the political changes that swept through Argentina in the mid 20th century, his work and his style fell out of favor, and he was swept out of his place in the art school, but he has recently been making a comeback.

Pío Collivadino on Wikipedia

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi James Gurney,
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VirginiaFhinn said...

I always wonder about how they would have captured facial expressions before cameras! Like if you hold a facial expression for a long time it looks forced, so how did they keep it fresh??
Also I’m having trouble with logging in and leaving a comment, does anyone else using an iPhone have this problem too? If I switch it to “view web version” of the page it will allow it but not in mobile form 😕