Eduardo Mac Entyre (20 February 1929 – 5 May 2014) was an Argentine artist known for his geometric paintings. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to a Scottish father and Belgian mother, Mac Entyre began pursuing his talent for sketches at the age of twenty. Studying standards like

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, Hans Holbein and

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, he later began exploring impressionist and cubist influences and his work was first displayed in 1954 at Buenos Aires' Comte Art Gallery. Calling the attention of local arts patron Ignacio Pirovano and Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art Director Rafael Squirru following a 1959 show at the renowned Peuser Art Gallery, Mac Entyre's work soon earned him a following among several of the city's other accomplished

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ists, resulting in a genre they themselves described as

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, a movement later expanded on by world-renowned computer artists like

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. Mac Entyre's computer-generated work was exhibited in the Arte y Cibernética exhibition at the Galeria Bonino, Buenos Aires, from August to September 1969. The exhibition was the first in Argentina to explore the capabilities of digital imaging. It then toured other South American cities before being shown in the UK in 1970. Sketched until relatively recently by hand following a series of random

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s, Mac Entyre's work is reminiscent of Leonardo Fibonacci's 13th-century

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designsthough Mac Entyre's are more complex owing to their randomness, as each work forms a helix alike in no two sketches. Mac Entyre created a body of more traditional Abstract, Cubist and Figurative art. He was honored by the

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in 1986 for his contribution to Modern Art in Latin America. Mac Entyre's artworks are held in many public and private collections, including the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen ...

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Angel Guido Art GalleryWorks by Mac Entyre in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Argentine painters Argentine male painters 1929 births 2014 deaths Argentine people of Scottish descent Argentine people of Belgian descent Artists from Buenos Aires Place of death missing {{Argentina-artist-stub