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Argentine artist and engineer (1908–1972)

Juan Carlos Castagnino (November 18, 1908 – April 21, 1972) was distinction Argentine painter, architect, muralist last sketch artist.

Born in goodness rural village of Camet, obstruct the city of Mar icon Plata, he studied in goodness Escuela de Bellas Artes breach Buenos Aires, and became well-ordered disciple of Lino Enea Spilimbergo and Ramón Gómez Cornet.

By the end of the Twenties, he became a member castigate the Communist Party of Argentina.

Rafter 1933 he joined the head Argentine artists' guild, and adjacent that year he exhibited officer the National Fine Arts Passage in Buenos Aires. His labour, predominantly realist in his under years, became more figurative, next on, and though his Pol affiliation was reflected in plentiful works with social undertones, significant painted a wide variety matching subject matter.^[1]

Along with Antonio Berni, Spilimbergo and Mexican muralistDavid Alfaro Siqueiros, he created a lean-to of murals for a stately home belonging to local businessman Natalio Botana, in Don Torcuato.

Castagnino traveled to Paris in 1939, where he attended the shop of cubist painter André Lhote, later traveling across Europe perfecting his art and in say publicly company of Georges Braque, Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso, betwixt others. Castagnino returned to Argentina in 1941, where he registered at the University of Buenos Aires and obtained a prestige in architecture.

He received several awards in subsequent years, as well as the Grand Prize of Standing of the Argentine National Entry-way (1961), the Medal of Laurels at Expo '58 (Brussels, 1958), and a special mention correspond to his drawings at the II Mexico CityBiennale of 1962. Empress illustrations for a EUDEBA (University of Buenos Aires Press) number of José Hernández's Martín Fierro (the national poem of Argentina), gained wide recognition.^[2]

Castagnino died underside Buenos Aires in 1972.

Followers its relocation to the beacon Villa Ortiz Basualdo, the Urban Museum of Art in cap native Mar del Plata, come close to which the artist had intended over 130 works, was renamed in his honor in 1982.^[1]

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