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The art was created in several waves between 7,300 BC and 700 AD, during the Archaic period of pre-Columbian South America. The age of the paintings was calculated from the remains of bone pipes used for spraying the paint on the wall of the cave to create the artwork, radiocarbon dating of the artwork, and stratigraphic dating.
In the first years of the 19th century, many foreign artists visited and resided in Argentina, leaving their works. Among them were English mariner Emeric Essex Vidal (1791–1861), a watercolorist who left important graphic evidence of Argentine history; French engineer Carlos E. Pellegrini (1800–1875), who was devoted to painting out of necessity and who would be the father of president ...
Allora & Calzadilla contemporary art duo; Alfonso Arana (1927–2005) Ramón Atiles y Pérez (1804–1875) Myrna Báez (1931–2018) José Campeche (1751–1809) Daniel Lind-Ramos (born 1953) Pablo Marcano García (born 1952) Poli Marichal (born 1956) Soraida Martinez (born 1956) María de Mater O'Neill (born 1960) Frieda Medín (born 1949 ...
The 895 paintings were found by Argentine and Chilean archaeologists in the Huenul 1 cave, a 630 square meter rock shelter located in the province of Neuquen, some 1,100 kilometers (684 miles ...
Latin American art is the combined artistic expression of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, as well as Latin Americans living in other regions. The art has roots in the many different indigenous cultures that inhabited the Americas before European colonization in the 16th century.
Several sites in the Pinturas River valley (literally "river of paintings", pictured) are associated with hunter-gatherer communities of the region, with the oldest being around 12,000 years old. They include rock shelters, burial sites, and cliffs with rock art, such as hand prints, depictions of animals, and hunting scenes. [26]
Artist Sergio Díaz and other Argentine artists' Money Art movement uses moderately priced brushes and acrylics to paint banknotes of 10, 20, 100, or 1,000 pesos and then share their work on ...
Cueva de las Manos, Perito Moreno, Argentina. The art in the cave is dated between 7,300 BC and 700 AD; [a] stenciled, mostly left hands are shown. [3] [4] In archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies ...