{"product_id":"untitled-composition","title":"Untitled Composition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist: \u003c\/strong\u003eJoaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874–1949)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal Dimensions: \u003c\/strong\u003e23 5\/8\" x 28 3\/4\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLocation:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Artwork: \u003c\/strong\u003e (1929) \"The peripatetic Joaquín Torres-García (1874–1949) was already 55 years old with a long career behind him by the time he created this work in 1929. When he was a young painter in Barcelona, his imagination had been fired by art nouveau and the murals of Puvis de Chavannes. In the 1920s he had experimented with cubism and primitivism and had met many leading modernists. But it was not until 1928, two years into a new life in Paris, that he began, through the abstract paintings of Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg and the movement known as De Stijl, to find his own way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting is one of a few in which Torres-García arrived at his mature style. His allegiance to De Stijl is evident in the vertical-horizontal grid and the restriction of his palette to the three primary colors, albeit muted. The delicate layering and subtle painterly touch, however, are all his own—as are the symbols filling the grid. They embody what Torres-García would call \"universal constructivism,\" which proposed a harmony between the intellect (represented here by the triangle and clock), the emotions (the house), and nature (the fish and the elephant). When he returned to Montevideo, Uruguay, his birthplace, in 1934, Torres-García expanded this system to include pre-Columbian elements, but he remained faithful to its basic outlines for the rest of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Uruguay, Torres-García shook up the academic establishment and became a leading teacher and proponent of modernism, laying the groundwork for the explosion of neoconstructivism in postwar Latin America. He was also influential in New York, where a posthumous exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1950 was admired by Barnett Newman and may have influenced Adolph Gottlieb and Louise Nevelson. His fascination with the compartmentalization of signs has its legacy in works by Jasper Johns, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and others.\" - (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nga.gov\/artworks\/150852-untitled-composition\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"National Gallery of Art Washington DC - Untitled Composition\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eNational Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joaquín Torres-García","offers":[{"title":"No Size Selected (Select a Size)","offer_id":49839898460403,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Replica Size (23 5\/8\" x 28 3\/4\")","offer_id":49839898493171,"sku":null,"price":1223.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Signature Size (16 1\/4\" x 19 3\/4\")","offer_id":49839898525939,"sku":null,"price":695.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Classic Size (19 7\/8\" x 24 1\/8\")","offer_id":49839898558707,"sku":null,"price":895.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Gallery Size (24 3\/8\" x 29 5\/8\")","offer_id":49839898591475,"sku":null,"price":1295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Statement Size (31 3\/8\" x 38 1\/4\")","offer_id":49839898624243,"sku":null,"price":1995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Grand Size (37 5\/8\" x 45 7\/8\")","offer_id":49839898657011,"sku":null,"price":2795.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate Size (44 3\/8\" x 54\")","offer_id":49839898689779,"sku":null,"price":3695.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Museum Size (53 1\/4\" x 64 7\/8\")","offer_id":49839898722547,"sku":null,"price":4995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5738\/6483\/files\/UntitledComposition.jpg?v=1783504249","url":"https:\/\/commissionedpaintings.com\/products\/untitled-composition","provider":"Commissioned Paintings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}