Fish

Polychrome wood.

The Center Pompidou, Paris (France).

Returning to Montevideo (Uruguay), Torres Garcia founded the Southern School, in which he continued to put his creative concept into practice. He revised contemporary art theories and incorporated primitivism into the core of the new art program. In this design, the author used rectangular structures and shapes, locally filled planes. The work demonstrates an original synthesis of the principles of abstraction and figurativeness. For the Uruguayan master, abstraction meant not a rejection of figuration but a different view of images of collective memory.