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Miguel Avataneo, 1962 | Figurative painter

Miguel Angel Avataneo, Argentine painter, was born in the province of Cordoba in Argentina and his love of the pure form of classicism was nourished by his early interest in the Italian masters: Correggio (1489-1534), Giorgione (1478-1510), Raphael (1483-1520) and Titian (1488/90-1576).
He was also greatly influenced by the late eighteenth century french paintings of David, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867).



Recognizing the influences implicit in his training, but striving to build upon the discipline it gave him, he has created a world of pictorial imagery entirely his own.
The unusual intensity of his art takes him far beyond the borders of South America and places him in a broader international artistic community.

In 1988, he graduated from La Escuela de artes de la Universidad Nacional de Cordoba.
He has had many successful individual exhibitions since 1988 and has obtained distinctions too numerous to list.
His elegant and thought provoking studies are instantly recognizable with collectors.

At first viewing of Avataneo's artwork, we catch our breath at images so little anticipated.
His paintings are so rich, yet so serene, and so forceful, yet so tender.

His figures have a stately passivity and appear suspended between day and night. He is able to give to his dreams the status of reality.

















Miguel Angelo Avataneo è nato nella provincia di Cordoba in Argentina ed il suo amore per la forma pura del classicismo era alimentata dal suo precoce interesse per i maestri italiani: Correggio (1489-1534), Giorgione (1478-1510), Raphael (1483-1520) e Tiziano (1488/90-1576).

Nel 1988, si è laureato nella Escuela de Artes de la Universidad Nacional de Cordoba. Ha ottenuto numerosi riconoscimenti.