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MacEntyre, Eduardo
(b Buenos Aires, 20 Feb 1929). Argentine painter. After studying technical drawing, he decided in the late 1940s to become an artist. After producing detailed drawings influenced by Dürer and still-lifes reminiscent of Chardin and Zurbarán, in the early 1950s he turned his attention to the work of Seurat and Cézanne and then to Cubism. He came to prominence, however, as one of the principal practitioners of a form of geometric abstraction called ARTE GENERATIVO in the late 1950s, basing his work on the articulation of an extremely simple basic element: a curved line. Believing the circumference of a circle to be the purest means of expressing movement, he favoured regular and symmetrical patterns of development in paintings such as Red, Orange and Black (1965; New York, MOMA) and explored the rhythmic possibilities of curved lines in impeccably executed paintings that suggest the perfection of geometry, such as Variable Polyptych II (1973–5; Washington, DC, Kennedy Cent. Perf. A.).
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