Aída Poblete
Aída Poblete | |
|---|---|
| Born | Aída Poblete del Solar 16 April 1914 Temuco, Chile |
| Died | 23 September 2000 (aged 86) Santiago, Chile |
| Education | University of Chile, 1945 Pontifical Catholic University of Chile |
| Occupations | |
| Movement | Generation of '40 Group of Five Rectangle Group |
Aída Poblete del Solar (16 April 1914[a] – 23 September 2000) was a Chilean painter, printmaker and professor.[1][2] A representative of the Chilean Generation of '40 (Spanish: Generación del Cuarenta), Poblete played a key role in the development of abstract art in Chile.[2][3]
Early life and education
Poblete was born on 16 April 1914 in Temuco.[2][4] From 1938 to 1945, Vicuña studied at the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile where she was student of Pablo Burchard.[2][4] Poblete later studied engraving under Eduardo Vilches at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.[2]
In Argentina Poblete studied under Julio E. Payró and Jorge Romero Brest.[5]
Career
Poblete belonged to the Generation of '40 group of Chilean painters.[2] In 1951, Poblete exhibited at the 1st Hispano-American Art Biennial in Madrid.[6]
In 1953, Poblete co-founded of the Group of Five (Spanish: Grupo de los cinco) along with Matilde Pérez, Ximena Cristi, Sergio Montecinos and Ramón Vergara.[2][3][7][8] The group aimed to move away from traditional figurative representation and held an exhibition at the Instituto Chileno-Francés de Cultura in Santiago.[7][8]
In 1955, Poblete joined the Rectangle Group (Spanish: Grupo Rectángulo), which rejected figurative art and explored abstraction through the use of geometric forms.[2][9][10]
Poblete's work is known to have been influenced conceptually by Emilio Pettoruti.[5]
Academia
Poblete first worked as an assistant professor on the introductory course to painting and drawing at the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile.[2] Poblete later worked as assistant professor and lecturer in commercial art, before becoming a professor of drawing.[2][11] In 1976, Poblete retired from teaching in order to concentrate on her artistic practice.[2]
Personal life
Notes
References
- 1 2 "Poblete, Aída (Chilean painter, born 1916)". Union List of Artist Names Online. Los Angeles, California: J. Paul Getty Trust. Retrieved 1 April 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Aída Poblete". Artistas Visuales Chilenos (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 1 April 2026.
- 1 2 Muñoz, Ernesto (June–August 2015). "Geometric Art in Chile: The Long and Difficult Road to Acceptance". ArtNexus. 97. Bogotá; North Miami. Retrieved 1 April 2026.
- 1 2 Humeres Solar, Carlos (1942). "Catalogue; biographical and critical notes". Chilean contemporary art, an exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Chile and the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Chile; organized by the Toledo Museum of Art in collaboration with the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Translated by Floripe, Rosario. p. 130. Retrieved 1 April 2026.
- 1 2 Allende, Matías (2017). "Aída Poblete. Muro". Catálogo razonado. Colección MAC (PDF) (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. pp. 482–483. ISBN 978-956-19-0991-5. Archived from the original on 10 October 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ "1.ª Bienal Hispanoamericana de Arte. Precursores y maestros de la pintura española contemporánea". Amigos del Museo Reina Sofía (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Fundación Amigos del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Retrieved 1 April 2026.
- 1 2 "Términos; Grupo de los cinco". Portal de las Artes (in Spanish). Chile. Archived from the original on 25 August 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2026.
- 1 2 "Grupo de los Cinco". Artistas Visuales Chilenos (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 1 April 2026.
- ↑ "Términos; Grupo Rectángulo". Portal de las Artes (in Spanish). Chile. Archived from the original on 30 July 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2026.
- ↑ "Grupo Rectángulo". Artistas Visuales Chilenos (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 1 April 2026.
- ↑ "Desarrollo del afiche en Chile (1905–1973); Gran producción de carteles". Memoria Chilena (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Biblioteca Nacional de Chile. Retrieved 1 April 2026.