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Juan Carlos Castagnino
Argentine artist and architect (1908–1972)
Juan Carlos Castagnino (November 18, 1908 – April 21, 1972) was an Argentine painter, architect, muralist and sketch artist.
Born in the rural village of Camet, near the city of Mar del Plata, he studied in the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, and became a disciple of Lino Enea Spilimbergo and Ramón Gómez Cornet.
By the end of the 1920s, he became a member of the Communist Party of Argentina.
In 1933 he joined the first Argentine artists' guild, and later that year he exhibited at the National Fine Arts Hall in Buenos Aires. His work, predominantly realist in his earlier years, became more figurative, later on, and though his Communist affiliation was reflected in numerous works with social undertones, he painted a wide variety of subject matter.[1]
Along with Antonio Berni, Spilimbergo and Mexican muralistDavid Alfaro Siqueiros, he created a series of murals for a villa b