(b Buenos Aires, 1 June 1910; d La Coru?a, Spain, 5 April 1979). Argentine painter and poster designer. He moved with his family in 1916 to Galicia and later to La Coru?a, where he attended primary school, and then to Santiago de Compostela, where he undertook his initial studies and held his first exhibition in 1929. His first works, stimulated by Galician Romanesque art and in part also by German Expressionism, depicted figures from Galician folklore. In 1936 he returned to Argentina, where he dedicated himself to journalism and painting. Following a trip to Europe in 1949, during which he met with Picasso in Paris and Henry Moore in London, from 1951 to 1954 he subjected his work to successive simplifications through which he arrived at an almost abstract language, using outlines to enclose planes of pure colour. From 1954 Seoane gradually disassociated the linear elements from the colour, a process that culminated in works such as Circus Figure (1959; Buenos Aires, Mus. Mun. A. Pl?st. S?vori), in which the decisive role is played by line. In 1952 he designed the first abstract posters in Argentina for a commercial company; he also painted numerous murals in Buenos Aires and designed tapestries in Santiago de Compostela. As a painter he favoured still-lifes, figures and popular themes, as in Marisqueras I(Women Selling Shellfish), (1969; Buenos Aires, Mus. A. Mod.).
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