The Grupo Montparnasse was an organization of
Chile
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an artists who had joined the gathering of great artists in the
Montparnasse Quarter of
Paris
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,
France
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, in the early part of the 20th century. Founding members,
Luis Vargas Rosas and
Camilo Mori among others, exhibit in the Salon d'Automne of 1920 in Paris where they meet
Juan Gris
José Victoriano González-Pérez (23 March 1887 – 11 May 1927), better known as Juan Gris (; ), was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innovative artistic ge ...
,
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...
and other artists experimenting in the new trends of the time like cubism and expressionism. The group's first exhibition was organized by
Luis Vargas Rosas in
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whos ...
in 1923. Their first exhibition was marked by postimpressionist influences, notably the works of
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically d ...
. Their "Salón de Junio" in 1925 saw a new generation of young painters join the group. Just as their comrades in Paris had, these creative men and women challenged the norms in Chilean painting, profoundly shaping a new world of art in their country.
Some of the group's members and adherents
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Graciela Aranis (1908-1996)
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Pablo Burchard (1873–1960)
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Jorge Caballero (1902–1992)
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Isaías Cabezón (1891–1963)
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Hector Cáceres (1897–1980)
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Ana Cortés (1906–1998)
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Augusto Eguiluz (1893–1969)
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Jorge Letelier (1887–1966)
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Camilo Mori (1896–1973)
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Julio Ortiz de Zárate Pinto (1885–1943)
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Manuel Ortiz de Zárate Pinto (1887–1946)
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Henriette Petit
Henriette Petit (pseudonym of Ana Enriqueta Petit Marfan; March 3, 1894 - December 9, 1983), was a Chilean painter, member of the Grupo Montparnasse, of which she was a co-founder.
Biography
Ana Enriqueta Petit Marfan was born in Santiago, March ...
(1894–1983)
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José Perotti (1898–1956)
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Inés Puyó (1906–1996)
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Luis Vargas Rosas (1897–1977)
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Pablo Vidor (1892–1991)
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Waldo Vila (1894–1979)
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Marta Villanueva (1900–1995)
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Álvaro Yáñez Bianchi "Juan Emar" (1893–1964)
Chilean artists
Modern art
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