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{{Short description|Argentine Abstract artist}}
'''Anselmo Piccoli''' (September 4, 1915 – July 12, 1992) was an Argentine [[Abstract art]]ist.

==Life and work==
Anselmo Piccoli was born in [[Rosario]], [[Argentina]] in 1915. Politically active as a [[Socialist Party of Argentina|Socialist]] during secondary school, Piccoli found time to attend the local Gaspary Academy, where he was trained as a painter. There, he met [[Antonio Berni]], an increasingly well-known [[Figurative art]]ist, in 1932, and Berni became a mentor to the promising young artist. The two began a collaboration on ''Wounded Man'', presented jointly at the local Autumn Art Festival of 1935. The mural, performed in [[lacquer]] blown through a tube, proved to be a lasting percent for Piccoli by way of its texture. His work was awarded at a competition in Rosario in 1941 and he joined the Independent Artists' Group, a local [[guild]] in 1942. The following year, Piccoli was awarded his first personal art exhibition at Rosario's prestigious [[Juan B. Castagnino Fine Arts Museum]].
[[File:Lydia 1959.jpg|thumb|left|''Lydia'', oil on metal plate, 1959]]
Piccoli married Lydia Langbart in 1944 and, relocating to the [[Buenos Aires]] suburb of [[Burzaco]], he devoted himself to family and, though he continued to paint, his art show appearances became less frequent. He was awarded numerous prestigious prizes, notably the inclusion in 1954 of a selection of his work at the [[w:es:Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio Caraffa|Emilio Caraffa Fine Arts Museum]] in [[Córdoba, Argentina|Córdoba]]. His technique continued to evolve during this interim and, creating a portrait of his wife in 1959, his use of [[geometry]] marked a clear trend in his work towards [[Constructivism (art)|Constructivism]]. Collecting a body of geometrically-defined work, Piccoli obtained an exhibition in 1969, his first show as a painter in this genre.

Piccoli made himself more available to art galleries in the following years, and he garnered numerous awards. Creating increasingly [[Figurative art]], a genre popularized in Argentina during the 1970s by [[Eduardo Mac Entyre]], his work was presented in a restropective at the Wildenstein Gallery of Buenos Aires in 1983. His work continued to receive accolades, including the Grand Prize at the National Art Show of 1984.

Continuing to paint, he died in 1992 at age 76. His widow donated ''Rhythms in Aluminum'', his last work, to the Castagnino Art Museum in Rosario in 2004, on the occasion of their inaugural of a contemporary art branch.

==Further reading==
*{{cite book |first=Miguel | last= Dávila |title=40 Artistas Argentinos |publisher=Ediciones Actualidad en el Arte |year=1991 |isbn=950-99117-2-0}}
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070811061352/http://www.macromuseo.org.ar/coleccion/artista/p/piccoli_anselmo.html ''Museo Castagnino: Anselmo Piccoli''] {{in lang|es}}

<gallery>
File:Paisaje 1955.jpg|''Landscape'', oil on paperboard, 1955
File:Otoño geometrizado 1967.jpg|''Autumn Geometry'', oil on metal plate, 1967
File:Balanceo formal 1986.jpg|''A Formal Balance'', oil on cloth, 1986
</gallery>

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