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José Gurvich

The Uruguayan artist, Jose Gurvich, was one of several artists committed to the artistic movement know as Universal Constructivism initiated by Joaquín Torres Garcia. This movement sought to create an avant-garde and universal visual language that did not disregard its own Latin American culture. In this way, it combined European constructivism, cubism and surrealism with pre-Colombian symbols. Gurvich was the descendent of a poor Jewish Lithuanian family that immigrated to Uruguay in the 1930s. His one year stay in an Israeli Kibutz (a farm collective), first in 1955 and again in 1964, inspired Gurvich to create paintings that integrated the concepts of Universal Constructivism with his Jewish heritage.
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El artista uruguayo José Gurvich fue una de las figuras más importantes del movimiento del universalismo constructivo promovido por Joaquín Torres García. Este movimiento pretendía crear un lenguaje visual vanguardista y universal que no dejase de lado la cultura propiamente latinoamericana, de esta manera, combinaba el constructivismo europeo, el cubismo y el surrealismo con símbolos prehispánicos. Gurvich era descendiente de una familia lituana judía pobre que emigró a Uruguay en los años treinta. Su estancia de un año en un kibutz (una granja colectiva) en Israel, primero en 1955, y después en 1964 hará que Gurvich comience a trabajar en crear obras que integren los conceptos del universalismo constructivo con su herencia judía.

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