Artwork of the Week!! Sun, Apr. 14, 2024 is by Clorindo Manuel Jose Testa (1923-2013): "Noa Noa P.G."; watercolor; 1979.
Artwork of the Week!! Sunday, April 14, 2024 is by Argentine Brutalist artist Clorindo Manuel Jose Testa (1923-2013). ?
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"Noa Noa P.G. " is a watercolor and ink by Italian-born Argentinian artist - architect Clorindo Manuel Jose Testa (1923-2013). This painting is ink signed and titled in the lower margin. The image measures 20 x 15-11/16 inches and was painted by the artist in 1979 on a sheet of ivory wove paper that measures 30 x 22-1/2 inches. The gallery inventory number for this image is 19829 .
This scarce surreal composition, a watercolor by Clorindo Manuel Jose Testa (1923-2013), is available from the gallery for $2,500.00.
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This watercolor and ink work on paper by Italian-Argentine artist/architect Clorindo Manuel Jose Testa was inspired by Paul Gauguin's travel journel "Noa Noa." Gauguin kept the journal during his first visit to Tahiti between 1891 and 1893.
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The phrase, 'noa noa,' was used by Gauguin to describe the scent of the Tahitian women: "A mingled perfume, half animal, half vegetable emanated from them; the perfume of their blood and of the gardenias—tiaré—which they wore in their hair. "Téiné merahi noa noa (now very fragrant)," they said.
Artist and architect Clorindo Manuel Jose Testa was born December 10, 1923, in Benevento, Naples, Italy; shortly thereafter his family moved to Argentina. Intending to major in naval engineering, Testa began studying at the School of Architecture at Universidad de Buenos in 1944, and soon switched to architecture. He graduated in 1948 and left for Rome to study painting. What was meant to be three months turned into three years after Testa became more involved in painting and sculpture. Meanwhile, he entered his first formal building design, a collaboration with Francisco Rossi, into a competition for the future Camara Argentina de la Contruccion building and, after three years in Italy, he returned to his adopted homeland to see it built.
By 1955 Testa had established himself as a leader in the Argentinian Brutalist movement and one of the leading contemporary Modern artists of Latin America. His architectural designs continued to garner large commissions in Buenos Aires, among them the Bank of London and the National Library. In the meantime, he continued his pursuit of painting and sculpture and frequently exhibited his work throughout the Argentina and abroad, and in 1968 he cofounded the Centro de Arte y Comunicacion (Art and Communication Center).
Clorindo Testa died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on April 11, 2013.
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