Yente | |
|---|---|
 Yente c. 1937 | |
| Born | Eugenia Crenovich November 6, 1905 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | November 28, 1990 (aged 85) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires |
| Known for | |
| Partner | Juan Del Prete (c. 1937; died 1987) |
Eugenia Crenovich (6 November 1905 – 28 November 1990), known by the pseudonym Yente, was an Argentine visual artist who is considered a pioneer of abstract art in Latin America, being the first woman painter—and one of the first regardless of gender—of that movement in her country.[1][2]
As noted by Adriana Lauria, Yente's "suggestive work has gone through different phases, post-Cubism, geometric Constructivism as well as freer forms of abstraction. Later, she developed her own type of Informalism, in which she applied thick impastos of a densely expressive material tinged with subtle colors and fine transparencies. The origin of her production lay in figurative art, and she remained faithful to it over time, with a persistent inclination towards sketches done using well-defined lines and delicate, well-executed technique. Her work evidences an elaborate language, one that made use of techniques such as drawing, painting, reliefs and objects, collages and tapestries."[3]
Her career has historically been overshadowed by that of her husband, the also pioneering abstract artist Juan Del Prete, something to which she herself contributed in part.[4]
Life and career
editEugenia Crenovich was born on November 6, 1905 in Buenos Aires, the youngest of five children of a Jewish family originally from the Russian Empire (present-day Ukrainian territory), who migrated to Argentina in the 19th century to be a part of the colonies established by Maurice de Hirsch.[5] Her pseudonym Yente
Acknowledging her artistic inclinations, her family facilitated home drawing lessons from an early age, and one of her paternal uncles provided subscriptions to the Parisian art magazines L'Art vivant and L'Amour de l'art, which exposed her to black-and-white reproductions of Renaissance, Baroque, and Neo-Classical masters, with Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Hans Holbein the Younger and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres cited as her favorites.[6] After the 1920s, she encountered works by Maurice de Vlaminck, Raoul Dufy and André Dunoyer de Segonzac, artists associated with Fauvism and Cubism, movements engaged in refining the avant-garde pursuits that had emerged in the 1910s.[6]
References
edit- ^ Lauria, Adriana (March 2014). "Yente, una precursora multifacética aún por descubrir". Yente (Eugenia Crenovich) (dossier) (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Centro Virtual de Arte Argentino (CVAA). Centro Cultural Recoleta. p. 1.
- ^ Casanovas, Laura (20 September 2018). "Hasta ella creía que su arte era "menor" frente al de su marido, pero ahora reivindican a Yente como una gran creadora". Clarín (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
- ^ Lauria, García & Weseley 2009, p. 185.
- ^ Lauria, Adriana (March 2014). "Yente, una precursora multifacética aún por descubrir". Yente (Eugenia Crenovich) (dossier) (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Centro Virtual de Arte Argentino (CVAA). Centro Cultural Recoleta. p. 3.
- ^ "Yente. Biografía" (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Centro Virtual de Arte Argentino (CVAA). Centro Cultural Recoleta. Retrieved September 28, 2023.
- ^ a b Lauria, García & Weseley 2009, p. 176.
Bibliography
edit- Lauria, Adriana; García, María Amalia; Weseley, David (2009). Yente-Prati (PDF) (in Spanish and English). Translated by Jane Brodie. Buenos Aires: Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA). ISBN 978-987-1271-22-1. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
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