Eduardo Mac Entyre

Eduardo Mac Entyre (born 1929, in Argentina) is an Argentine painter well-known for his Pop art, particularly his geometric designs.

Born to a Scottish father and Belgian mother, Mac Entyre began pursuing his talent for sketches at the age of twenty. Studying standards like Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein and Rembrandt, he later began exploring Impressionist and Cubist influences and his work was first diplayed in 1954 at Buenos Aires' Comte Art Gallery.

Calling the attention of local arts patron Ignacio Pirovano and Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art Director Rafael Squirru following a 1959 show at the renown Peuser Art Gallery, Mac Entyre's work soon earned him a following among several of the city's other accomplished Abstract artists, resulting in a movement they themselves described as Generative art, a movement later expanded on by world-renown computer artists like Benoît Mandelbrot.

Sketched until relatively recently by hand following a series of random algorithms, Mac Entyre's work is reminiscent of Leonardo Fibonacci's 13^th century nautilus designs; though Mac Entyre's are more complex owing to their randomness, as each work forms a helix alike in no two sketches.

A prolific and innovative Pop artist, Mac Entyre has also created a body of more traditional Abstract, Cubist and Figurative art. He was honored by the Organization of American States in 1986 for his contribution to Modern art in Latin America and, still active, his work is widely displayed in Argentina and elsewhere.

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* [http://www.angelguidoartproject.com/_v2/muestras_anteriores_macentyre.php Angel Guido Art Gallery]