Cuneo José (1887 - 1977) Uruguayan Campaign

Uruguayan countryside Watercolor on paper signed lower left: Cuneo 1950 Size: 45 X 60 cm Small tears visible in the photo José Cunéo was born in Uruguay It is in landscape painting that he projects the essentials of his aesthetic ambitions . He painted the Uruguayan countryside in a style called "planismo" that tries to assume the colorist heritage of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting as well as the constructive and formal orientation of the heirs of Cézanne. The discovery of Soutine's work oriented towards an expression that takes into account the movement and free interpretation of the visible world. In the series "Ranchos y Lunas" he adapts a spatial conception inherited from Soutine to a pantheistic and metaphorical vision of the local landscape. (summarized by Régine Cardis)