- Eduardo Sívori
Eduardo Sívori (born in
Buenos Aires ,Argentina , on13 October ,1847 ; died in Buenos Aires on5 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 Parisianatelier s. Returning to Buenos Aires, the experience drew him to other local painters, including his brother, Alejandro,José Aguyari andEduardo 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 artisanguild 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 prestigiousJean Paul Laurens atelier, following which he created "El despertar de la criada" ("Waking the Daughter"), perhaps his best remembered work. Increasingly renown, his travels took him to theUnited 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 passed away in Buenos Aires in 1918 at the age of seventy and was honored posthoumously with the naming of the new in his honor, in 1938.
External links
* [http://www.museosivori.org.ar/paginahistoriamuseo.htm#sivori Official Sívori Museum biography] es icon
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