Enrique Estrada Bellooften mentioned in this space, was a Santa Fe painter who graduated from the academy Reign, Cradle of artistic talent at the beginning of the 20th century.
Founder and first president of Santa Fe plastic artistsparticipated in national and provincial halls, receiving awards such as the Gold Medal in Paraná and The Honor Award of the Government of Santa Fe.
His work reflected local identity and attachment to earth. He directed the Rosa Galisteo Museum from 1963 until his death. In his honor, a place in Santa Fe and the Museum of Arts and Handicrafts of Santo Tomé are named after.
Made, When saying Domingo Sahdaa painting with everyday as central theme. Such was his ideological position “without provocations or outburst, with the mature conviction of ‘who paints his village, paints the world’”.
The coast Estrada Bello portrayed the iconic inhabitants of the coast: “The Indian Ramón”, “Manaco” and “Black Arigós”the founder of the “Los Negros Santafesinos” compars. He died in 1964.
A historical sample
Why remember it today? Because at the beginning of May 1976, the El Greco Art Gallery (which then worked in San Jerónimo 2693) He started his season with a sample in tribute to Estrada Bello.
The coast The exhibition was made up of works by the plastic artist assigned by his family, which give an idea of their technical searches. It is that there were oils, drawings, watercolors, monocopias and works with color ink.
The jewel of the sample was oil “Cardo Flor”, winner of the third prize at the XXXVIII National Salonpiece that was provided for the occasion by the authorities of the Rosa Galisteo Provincial Museum.
The coast Paint the coasters
On Sunday, May 9, 1976, the coast published a review by Jorge Taverna Irigoyen on the aforementioned exhibition. “His work in totality is discovered fundamentally as a lover of the human figure”said the critic.
For Taverna Irigoyen, Estrada Bello portrayed “reaching the essentials of the face, of the pose, to which distinguishes an attitude and even an inner feeling“.
The coast “He knows how to get to the right medium of a psychology; but more and before this, to a ‘being’ Simple and peaceful of the chosen model, “he added, with his incisive gaze.
Taverna is right. Estrada Bello “painted” characters from the coast. “Creoles with a meek look and life without trouble”, raised by the rivermarked by the Espinel, the growing and the island.
The coast “These human guys who with such depth turned on Estrada Bello To the almost fantastic magic of their fabrics, they are the best of their work“Taverna said.
And he stressed, to close, the pleasure that caused him to discover in the sample of 49 years ago some of the many resources that Estrada deployed on the cardboard with trade and mischief.
The coast “Just like enjoying the leave but Clean sound of your palette: always willing to rummage in the background of forms, “he concluded.
