Florencio Molina Campos [floor-ens-yo moh-lee-nah cahm-poss] is perhaps the best Argentine artist at depicting the life of inland Argentina and the gauchos [gow-choss]. With exaggerated facial expressions and other characteristics, Campos sought to depict the life not of the porteños [poor-tai-nyoss; which means "people from the city of Buenos Aires"]. Instead Campos sought to recreate the daily, and often boring life of those in Argentina's pampas [pahm-pass] or plains. During Campos' life (early twentieth century), the gauchos lived off of the open land by raising cattle, drinking mate [mah-tey], and enjoying the slow pace of the pampas. Look at these paintings by Campos and see how he depicted life in the Argentine pampas during the first half of the twentieth century. His art is helpful in seeing what life was and still is like for many Argentines away from the skyscrapers and busy avenues. Check out this Web site to see more. While the site is in Spanish, you can search around and see many more paintings.
No comments:
Post a Comment