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Argentina's most famous artist is Benito Quinquela Martin, a painter who behaves much like a kid left alone in a room with several cans of paint. He believes in using all sorts of colors, the louder the better. He also thinks that his art should not be confined to canvas rectangles: he likes to paint almost anything in reach...
...Quinquela Martín, a modest man of 50, has never married. Says...
Mendoza, after the man who, according to Boca legend, landed at that very spot when he founded the city of Buenos Aires. In a studio on the third floor Quinquela Martín himself painted and directed the school's activities, agreeing to foot the bills for the museum as long as he lived...
...Painter Quinquela decorated the classrooms with high-keyed murals of La Boca's daily life. Quinquela Martín abhors political propaganda in art, but he painted La Boca's stevedores, not like bedraggled proletarians, but as big-muscled, heroic men. Said he: "These boys are of poor families. Their fathers are doing hard, menial jobs. By making them into such men, these children will, at least for the moment, forget their poverty and be proud of their fathers...
...fame of Quinquela Martín's school spread all over the world. Offers came from Italy and the U.S. asking him to decorate similar schools for workers' children. But Quinquela Martín declined these offers "not because I would not have been honored and proud. . . . But I feel that such murals should be done by the men of the country itself, expressing scenes and events of the country as only its natives can best know and interpret them." Today, La Boca's moppets are even prouder of Painter Quinquela than of their crack football team...