Word: quinquelas
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Quinquela Martín, a modest man of 50, has never married. Says...
Several years ago Quinquela Martín bought a piece of one of La Boca's slum-strewn blocks and gave it to the municipality on condition that it erect there a school of graphic arts exclusively for La Boca's moppets. The school was built, named the Escuela-Museo Don Pedro...
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...