In 1943, Joaquín Torres-García created the "School of the South," with the ambition of aiding Uruguay's artistic isolation. His mission was founded on a statement he had made in 1935, "A great School of Art ought to arise here in our country...I have said School of the South; because in reality, our North is the South. There should be no North for us, except in opposition to our South. That is why we now turn the map upside down." Torres-García was interested in pushing Uruguayan artists to negate colonialism; to make art as though they were directly descended from their pre-Hispanic heritage. His drawing of 1943, América Invertida, is an excellent visual articulation of his desire to put Uruguay in control of its own artistic production.
References:
Barnitz, Jacqueline. Twetieth-Century Art of Latin America. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.
Art:
Museo Torres García, Montevideo, Uruguay
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