Word: collivadino
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...done more than 600 tempera and watercolor drawings of Gaucho life on the pampas of Argentina as he remembers it from his own childhood. So crammed with vitality are his buck-toothed cowboys and hammer-headed broncos, thrown into relief by strong, earthy tempera colors, that Pio Collivadino, onetime director of the National School of Decorative Arts in Buenos Aires, has described them as major examples of "harmonious destruction." Good examples are The Last Gaucho (see cut) and How About It? (see cut) which the artist captions thus: "The food is going to be good, and maybe...
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