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Alfredo Antognini was born in Buenos Aires on September 20, 1938. After studying art and philosophy in Argentina, and art restoration in Mexico City, he moved to San Diego, where he now makes his home.
 Of a solo exhibit, the San Diego Union-Tribune art critic
wrote: "Antognini's influences are mostly modernist. There's a little bit of Balthus, the late Swiss painter, as well as a trace of Diego Rivera. But Antognini sublimates stylistic inspirations to a richer engagement with each subject." His couples doing the tango "seem
to be under the spell of some powerful daydream. . . . his paintings
of fruit and table-top arrangements have a palpable vitality. .
. . Light is brighter in Antognini's beach scenes. Their subject
matter is locally inspired, but the look is Continental -- incorporating
everything from classical Greek art to the Picasso bathers of the
20s."
A recent new subject for Antognini is a series of paintings he
calls "Las Sirvientas." These are memory paintings of
the dark-skinned women who used to work in his family home and
of similar women who sell themselves.Read more about
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