Ana Sacerdote (25 September 1925 – 2019) was an Italian-born Argentine abstract artist who lived in

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. Sacerdote was born in

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, Italy on 25 September 1925. She graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredon in Buenos Aires and studied under

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. In the mid-1950s, she exhibited with

Carmelo Arden Quin Carmelo Arden Quin (''né'' Carmelo Heriberto Alves; 16 March 1913 – 27 September 2010) was a Uruguayan artist. Arden Quin’s primary focuses were painting and poetry. From a young age, Arden Quin was an ambitious and idealistic artist. Today, ...

, Martin Blaszko,

Gregorio Vardanega Gregorio Vardanega (21 March 1923 – 7 October 2007) was an artist of Italian origins who worked in Argentina and France. Vardanega and Martha Boto, his companion, created the term "chromocinetism" to describe their artistic research. Early l ...

, Virgilio Villalba, Luis Tomasello, and others in the ''Asociacion Arte Nuevo'' in Buenos Aires, which was organized by Aldo Pellegrini. In 1956, with recommendations from Jorge Romero Brest and

Pablo Curatella Manes Pablo Curatella Manes (December 14, 1891November 14, 1962) was a prolific Argentine sculptor. Life and work Born in La Plata in 1891 to Clara Manes, a Greek Argentine immigrant, and Antonio Curatella, from Italy, Curatella Manes first acquired a ...

, Sacerdote was awarded a grant by the French government to live and study in Paris. She continued painting throughout the 1960s, when she became interested in

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and later computer-generated drawings. She created an

animated film Animation is a method by which image, still figures are manipulated to appear as Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent cel, celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited ...

based on her geometric paintings that was shown at the ''I Festival Internacional do Cinema de Animação no Brasil VIII Bienal de São Paulo'' in

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, Brazil in 1965. Beginning in the 1970s, she experimented with computer-generated drawings and continued to create video art. Sacerdote died in 2019.

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Ana Sacerdote
1925 births 2019 deaths 20th-century Argentine women artists 21st-century Argentine women artists Argentine video artists Artists from Buenos Aires Artists from Rome Italian emigrants to Argentina {{Argentina-artist-stub