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Deira, Ernesto
(b Buenos Aires, 26 July 1928; d Paris, 1 July 1986). Argentine painter. He studied with the artists Leopoldo Torres Agüero (1924–96) and Leopoldo Presas (b 1915), and from the early 1960s he had recourse to elements of Art informel, applying the paint with violent gestures and allowing it to drip down the canvas, as in Grandmother’s Stories (1964; see Glusberg, p. 269). While fervently defending the importance of the human figure, he subjected images of the body to a distortion and Expressionist treatment that almost destroyed their legibility. From the mid-1970s Deira moved towards a more coherent and lyrical but mannered treatment of the figure, as in Don’t Cry for Us Argentina (1982; see Glusberg, p. 271).
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