Fidel Roig Matons (born Fidel Enric Jaume Roig i Matons,

Girona, Catalonia Girona (; ) is the capital city of the Province of Girona in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 106,476 in 2024, but the popu ...

, May 27, 1887 -

Mendoza, Argentina Mendoza (), officially the City of Mendoza (), is the capital of the Provinces of Argentina, province of Mendoza Province, Mendoza in Argentina. It is located in the northern-central part of the province, in a region of foothills and high plain ...

, Argentina, May 26, 1977) was a Catalan painter and musician. He did his first studies at the ''Academia de Belles Arts de Barcelona (''nowadays Real Academia Catalana de Bellas Artes "de Sant Jordi") under the direction of Lluís Perich and

Lluís Graner Lluís Graner i Arrufí, or Arrufat in Spanish (5 February 1863–7 May 1929) was a Spaniards, Spanish painter in the Realism (art), Realistic style, artistic director and theater entrepreneur. After achieving notable success in painting, he ...

. In 1907 he moved to Argentina, staying for a short period of time in Buenos Aires and settling finally in 1908 in Mendoza. By the late '30s, he was active as a chamber music interpreter and teacher of fine arts at the Don Bosco College (from 1911 to 1925) and the Agustin Alvarez National College (from 1926 to 1931). From 1925 onwards he gradually abandoned his musical activity and turned on to painting. His work initially focused in depictions of the people and customs of the

Huarpes The Huarpes or Warpes are an Indigenous people of Argentina, living in the Cuyo region. Some scholars assume that in the Huarpe language, this word means "sandy ground," but according to ''Arte y Vocabulario de la lengua general del Reino de Ch ...

indigenous population. After 1936, he fully devoted his work to

Andes Andes mountains The Andes ( ), Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range (; ) are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range is long and wide (widest between 18th p ...

landscapes, aiming to produce a whole pictoric sequence of the

Crossing of the Andes The Crossing of the Andes () was one of the most important feats in the Argentine War of Independence, Argentine and Chilean War of Independence, Chilean wars of independence. A Army of the Andes, combined army of Argentine soldiers and Chilea ...

, the military campaign of General Jose de San Martin to expel the Spanish royalists from Chile in 1818. He was co-founder of the Orchestral Society of Mendoza in 1922, and of the ''Academia Provincial de Bellas Artes'' of Mendoza in 1925. His prolific work had to be abandoned from 1952 due to his gradual loss of sight.

References

* Manent, A. (1992). "Diccionari dels Catalans d'America", Vol. III, p. 419. Barcelona, Generalitat de Catalunya - * Roig, F.A. et al. (1999). "Guanacache". Mendoza, EDIUNC -

External links

Fidel Roig Matons, Pintor de los Andes
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Los Rasgos Huarpes en la Población Lagunera
según los retratos de Fidel Roig Matons {{DEFAULTSORT:Roig Matons, Fidel 1887 births 1977 deaths 20th-century Catalan painters