Pedro Figari
Prior to embarking on his artistic career, Uruguayan painter Pedro Figari (1861-1938) also worked as an attorney, a writer, and a politician. Shortly after deciding to pursue art full time (at the age of 60), Figari moved to Paris and encountered the work of French post-impressionist painters Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard. Many scholars cite Bonnard and Vuillard as Figari’s primary technical references due to their shared simplification of forms and figures, loose handling of paint, and textured surfaces. Different from his French colleagues, however, Figari did not paint the cloistered, hushed lifestyles of the European bourgeoisie but instead derived his subject matter from personal memories of his childhood in Uruguay.
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Pedro Figari
Pedro Figari: African Nostalgias 2019 Hardcover, pages
Publisher: Museu de Arte de São Paulo
ISBN: 8531000610
Dimensions: 25.2 x 18.4 x 2 cm Read more -
Pedro Figari
Suite para Figari. Pintura, música, danza: narrativas de identidad 2012 Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Museo Figari
ISBN: 978-9974-36-212-3
Dimensions: 17 x 22 cm Read more -
Pedro Figari
Figari: Mito y Creación 2019 Read more