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Eduardo MacEntyre

Argentine artist

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Eduardo MacEntyre was an Argentine artist and a founding member of Generative Art in Buenos Aires in 1959. He is known for his paintings that create an illusion of volume through intersecting geometric lines. His acrylic works on canvas are reminiscent of early 20th-century Constructivist sculpture, but their lack of tangible scale gives them an infinite quality, like forming galaxies. MacEntyre's art is associated with geometric abstraction, a style that emerged in Argentina with groups like Concrete Invention, which opposed representational and symbolic art.12

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