Angel Varsi 1920 1994 Drawing Caminito Buenos Aires Argentina Working Class
- Art Measures Approximately:
- 8“ Tall
- 12“ Wide
- Frame Measures Approximately:
- 12.5“ Tall
- 16.5“ Wide
- 1“ Deep
- Frame
could use a slight touch up.
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- He was born in La Boca on October 28, 1920 and died in
his neighborhood and hometown on
- July 12, 1994. Self-taught painter from the La
Boca School. He held individual exhibitions at
- La Farola de La Boca,
Municipality of Lanús, Residencial Chaillon, Ateneo Popular de La Boca,
- Shell
Argentina Sociedad Anónima and Galería de Arte Ariadna. He attended group
exhibitions
- at the Wilde Rotary Club, Instituto Madre de los Inmigrantes,
Caminito Art Gallery, Quinqueliano
- Cultural Institute, Friends of Calle
Olavarría, La Rioja School of Crafts and Agrupación Impulso.
- In his paintings
he shows those streets of La Boca that he saw as he grew up and that cradled
- his dreams as a teenager, and that today he reflects in his works, with an
astonishing reality,
- playing with green and red, yellow and purple, with white
and blue, in the same way he did
- when he was little. In addition to its
streets, Angel Varsi presents us with the corners of Boca,
- those picturesque
little houses made of wood and sheet metal, so faithful in their creation that
- at times it seems to be there. Painter full of creative talent, self-taught,
and when the
- Great Master Benito Quinquela Martín introduced him to me, he
said: He has a natural gift
- and God has given him beauty so that he can use it;
He is already placed on the line of victory;
- and if Quinquela says it, don't
you think we can applaud Varsi, a comment by Nelly Quirós in
- the Nuestra Gente
audition on Radio Excélsior on July 15, 1970. His corners of Boca, his
- streets
in the neighborhood where he was born, have the authenticity of the authentic
artist.
- He adores wooden houses and their tenants, which is why in his
paintings he gives so much
- life to the poor men who live in the tenements.
Everyone is aware that there is a fellow
- human being who thinks of them, lives
like them, and assumes that in some way they can
- be saved from overcrowding and
also saved from having a miserable death, Pedro Mario Degregori.
- Biography
published on the back of this work translated.