Eduardo Mac Entyre (20 February 1929 – 5 May 2014) was an Argentine artist known for his geometric paintings. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to a Scottish father and

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mother, Mac Entyre began pursuing his talent for sketches at the age of twenty. Studying standards like Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein and Rembrandt, he later began exploring impressionist and

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influences and his work was first displayed in 1954 at Buenos Aires' Comte Art Gallery. Calling the attention of local arts patron Ignacio Pirovano and

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Director Rafael Squirru following a 1959 show at the renowned Peuser Art Gallery, Mac Entyre's work soon earned him a following among several of the city's other accomplished abstract artists, resulting in a genre they themselves described as

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, a movement later expanded on by world-renowned computer artists like

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. Sketched until relatively recently by hand following a series of random

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s, Mac Entyre's work is reminiscent of

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's 13th-century

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designsthough Mac Entyre's are more complex owing to their randomness, as each work forms a

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alike in no two sketches. Mac Entyre created a body of more traditional Abstract,

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and Figurative art. He was honored by the Organization of American States in 1986 for his contribution to Modern Art in Latin America.

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Angel Guido Art Gallery
Argentine painters Argentine male painters 1929 births 2014 deaths Argentine people of Scottish descent Argentine people of Belgian descent People from Buenos Aires Place of death missing {{Argentina-artist-stub