Quinquela’s life is a metaphor of Argentina itself. That of love, contradiction and conflicting. The party, not that of drama.
For some, it could be the “Fifth essence” or the Argentine archetype. But of the deep Argentine, forge of millennia of encounters and disagreements between peoples.
For the majority he was abandoned at birth, but if one leaves the “simple and sentimental” it was left in the best place where a child could be left that his arrival in the world could be socially problematic, in the home of children.
There he lived six years until he was adopted by a marriage formed by a “Tano” Genoese and an “India” illiterate of the Argentine coast. A common forge through these lands of Europeans and American before, which make the new, Benito Juan Martín, his daily life.
When they adopted it they added the Chinchella But as soon as he could renamed, not leaving anyone in his story outside, Benito Quinquela Martín And it was not as an artistic name, but by law.
And with it Argentiniza the paternal surname. It makes it phonetically something our imprinting the acculturation process, or creation of a new culture, which was happening through these lands in the early twentieth century, the famous “cocoliche”.
How had no date of birth, since the note with which they left him did not have it, he decreed that his birthday was March 1. He did it naturally, without dramas or blame.
Just as he worked as a child, like so many of that time, and when he discovers his passion he will not leave her for anything. As a cornered beast will defend his art against all the “academicism” prevailing. And unlike the “modern Argentina” that copy the European models that have nothing to do with their idiosyncrasy, Quinquela will make their art a personal and unique seal.
Its workers are painted in quasi Fordian tapes and hunched over hard work. The background full of factories is a metaphor of what is lived outside, but its port will be filled with colors creating a new atmosphere that transports us to the hope that the work brings as hard as it is. Reality and hope are constant in Quinquela.
His suffering is hopeful future, it is not a complaint of oppression and less of class struggle, although he lived that and fought for better working conditions. He knows about suffering, but he also knows about the springboard that hard work can be when there is a plan that sustains it.
And his plan was incorrect but effective. Quinquela leaves the academy because with her she cannot represent what she wants. I hide it and traction it where you don’t want. Towards the technique devoid of passion and for him art is passion or is nothing.
Subject that even today does not forgive him the “official academicism” of European tone, in truth does not forgive him anything about his life, and continue to attack implacably yesterday as today.
It was the Argentine incorrectness to leather flowera seal that differentiates us throughout the world and that makes our forms, not being unique, have their peculiarities that exasperate the followers of the right ways that are nothing other than “traditional domination of the Weberian type.”
In its minute of eternal fame, When the entire world was given to his feet and when his paintings could be sold for millions, he decided to leave everything on the side because he missed his mother.
Quinquela with his parents
But like Chinchella It was done Quinquela His altruism also had his mark. He did not sell or deliver his convictions with the excuse of “raising funds” to donate. And the paroxysm of his convictions was in Italy when he refused to sell his favorite painting, twilight. Not only is it a sign of its principles but of its courage, since who intended to buy it and even offered a blank check was nothing more and nothing less than the Duce Benito Mussolini in the height of his power. Others would have used it as an excuse, for him it was a reason for satisfaction. Argento pride that some tell him.
As when he told not an American industrialist to paint his factory for a lot of money, and when we say a lot, it was a lot. He not only told him no, but he proposed that he hire local artists.
Generosity that will always accompany him and, above all, in his own homeland where he only painted in his mouth and when he was asked to paint in other places he did the same thing he did in the United States, to renounce so that others would benefit.
The order of the screw
Founded the best order that a good human being can found: The order of the screw. He was the dictator of a brotherhood that rewarded the creative madness. That boasted to be against the countercultural, but everything to seek beauty. And, as he knew about the weaknesses of men, the order died when leaving his dictator.
For the same As he approached the death bed, he married his secretary, friend and, surely, a lifetime, Marta Cerruti. She thought she could fight for her legacy, but she was wrong. It was she who suffered the fierce attack of the carrion. The pressures and betrayals were so many Marten, And the heirs who continued it, called her the cursed inheritance.
And as the degradation of our culture became state policy, our great historical characters became enemies to hide. They are enclosed in museums; They are put a festive date, if it is that of their death better; Beautiful tributes are made to dilute their legacy; and great monuments are built to hide its greatness.
And in order not to leave any loose ends, they name him an “official chancebero”, they build an unintelligible, consumable and sweetened story that, counted which administrative procedure, demotivates the most motivated.
Luckily Quinquela, like our great historical characters, escapes all the time even against all possible forecasts.
Delivering the order of the screw to Geraldine Chaplin on behalf of his father, Charles Chaplin
He was a deep Argentine, heir and paradigm of that depth. Synthesis of his time and all the time of America that was previously called “Abya Yala”.
Quinquela was “Jijiji”, of the Rounds or his opposite “Animal song” of Soda Stereo. It was the sublime Mercedes Sosa singing “thanks to life” or the great León Gieco with his “I just ask God”. Diego’s goal to the English and the “other” goal from Diego to the English. Messi stealing a kiss on the cup in Qatar And the arms to heaven Kempes in it Monumental. Vilas, Ginobili and Of the foal hugging a Delbonis.
The chocolate afternoons of thousands of children sitting in front of the TV next to Carlitos Balá And what is the salt or captain Piluso and its endearing coquito, or to say to the great Pepe Biondi and his Pepe Cookie.
It was the family with Doña Petrona and Juanita or the unparalleled Tita Merello, The tanguera par excellence, telling all Argentines “Woman, get the Pap smear” and the televised theater of Darío Vittori.
Benito Quinquela Martin A Tita Merelo
Needless Piazzola with “Goodbye Nonino.”
Quinquela was that and much more. Only our Malvinas veterans But know that, with them and for them, it would have been five.
To quinquela “people were not important for what they are, or for what they have, just for what they give” and that was their premise until the last day of their life.
Paraphrasing Marechal, the “land battle” defeated her with her spatula, but in “Celeste Battle” is his legacy. The ends of the “screw order” can give us the key.
Source: Ambito
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