From his early surrealist influences to the development of nuevo realismo, berni’s works chronicle argentina’s tumultuous history, giving voice to the marginalized through characters like juanito laguna and ramona montiel. Antonio berni was an argentine artist known for his socially committed art Berni had his first exhibition when still a teenager and received a scholarship to study painting in europe in 1925. He is associated with the movement known as nuevo realismo (new realism), a latin american extension of social realism. He is associated with the movement known as nuevo realismo (“new realism”), an argentine extension of social realism. In the early 1930s, after returning from a long stay in europe, and in a context of deep economic crisis on a global scale, berni sought to promote an art committed to the political reality of.
13 october 1981), argentine painter Berni was born in rosario, where in 1916 he studied at the centre catalá under eugenio fornels and enrique munné. Latin american artists of the twentieth century, museum of modern art, new york, 1993, p Ranging from the charming to the absurd, the work of antonio berni has been ubiquitous in argentina since the 1930s, when he was a young artist advocating for political change.
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