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He was born in Cordoba, Argentina. On October 22, 1914, Barissone His parents were Matilda and savior Monaco. His childhood was spent in the corner of Obispo Street San Jerónimo Salguero the square in front of San Roque. In his youth and being a father to his seven children with Marcelina Aguirre, traveled to Comodoro Rivadavia La Rioja and making roads map. Then he moved to Saldán, knowing then his second wife, Mary kapustensky, with whom he has three more children.

In his early years as an artist, his works were signed with the nickname of Fedor, just a matter of taste.

Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts "Figueroa Alcorta" in which students attended as free, under the title of Professor of Drawing and Painting. Specialization: Painting, Decorator and Ceramic mural.

Enrique Monaco, it was a committed artist in the sense of social criticism through the contents of his work, but if it was in the essential sense of coherence between their actions and ideas. Chose to paint the beauty, shape it through their lines, by the symbiosis of the stroke necessary and irreplaceable and the content of their figures, with the psychological insight of the sensitive and expressive. Syntax seeking ways to encourage and do not stop them. Chose to be a painter himself faithful to its source, its values, and what moved him most deeply.

Through art, he finds his style, own unique. Achieved in their work a conceptual beauty, imbued with great content of mind.

Awarded gold medal for his intellectual work (1971 - 1969) awarded jointly by the State and Catholic University and the Municipality of Córdoba City.

In 1989 and 1990, the Lottery of the Province of Córdoba, lottery tickets issued reproductions of his most important works.

Named Distinguished Citizen of the City of Córdoba (1994) with the statuette Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera. Appointed Honorary Fellow of UNICEF. Human Rights.

Writer and poet, in 1994 published his book of poetry "The Color of Words."

That same year he participated as a member of the Honorary Committee of the commemoration to the 100-year Provincial School of Fine Arts Dr. José Figueroa Alcorta

Began to exhibit his works in the year 1932.No attended rented rooms or contests.

  His Masters Francisco Vidal, Carlos Camillioni, Bazzini Carlos Barros, Edelmiro Lescano Ceballos, hence his approach to painting masters of Argentina, with whom he shared linking studies and close friends, as well as with Lino Enea Spilimbergo, Enrique Policastro, Demetrio Urruchua, Onofrio Palamara, Francisco Vidal, Miguel Angel Budini, Carlos Sánchez Gramajo, Horacio Suarez, Egidio Cerrito, Oscar Meyer.

The use of the easel, with a strong identity built on experience, the mural was devout and fervent admirer of the greatest of all the muralists, David Alfaro Siqueiros, who met him through a series of slides and invite him to Mexico to work as a partner in the mural "The March of Humanity" one of the panels Poly Forum, theme music, monumental architecture integration with sculptors paint.

Through drawing and painting, Monaco has always been characterized, despite its continuing evolution in the technical-to be a keen interpreter of the reality of things and men. His works reflect a strong sense of the experience of man, whom the artist try to capture its true essence and profound greatness, denoting a keen sense and exquisite sensitivity.

In the fabrics of this artist, is one of his constant themes, women, the means of passing through the sublimation of it, in its most many facets, his pure love for her and therefore for mankind.

Being also one of the names and capitals of the painting Cordoba and Argentina. His constant search for expression led him to find his own style, which is now clearly a school.

More than five thousand works scattered around the world are part of the artistic heritage of discerning collectors and connoisseurs of the value and message that each work belies pictorial.

Of his trip to Europe where he made important samples, expands its vision that is reflected in his new works. In Europe absorbed the culture and architecture of the old world. Known are its research and analysis of the great Renaissance painters like Botticelli, studying their techniques. I make copies of the Birth of Venus and the Three Graces, also of the Naked Maja and Clothed Maja Goya, and Goya's portrait. It also incorporates techniques such as overlapping of colors and the use of black and white.

In the testimony of his career, is reflected, in large figures of Argentina and Universal scene such as;

E. Bischoff, flower garden, Francisco Petrone, Tito Lusiardo, Lautaro Murua, Duilio Marzio, Alberto Anchart, Carmen Amaya, Mercedes Sosa, Horacio Guarany; poets Rafael Alberti and Maiacosvski, J. Fillion, Ernesto Sabato, Luis Borges, musicians such as Manuel de Falla and Katchatourian; painters Fransisco Vidal, Carlos Alonso, Onofrio Palamara, Francisco Pedone, writers such as Don José Camon Aznar, political and Arturo Ilia, Amadeo Sabatini, Ignacio Palacios Hidalgo, Santiago del Castillo, the bishops of Argentina and Córdoba, and Pope John Paul II, being in the Vatican two important portraits of the pontiff.

WORKS GREAT COLLECTORS

"THE GARDENER"

"MARY, PAUL AND MARIAN"

"THE EXPLORER"

"THE WALL"

"DON PIZARRO SERIES"

"TEN SERIES INKS"

"Self Portrait"

"DOÑA MERCEDES"

"THE promesantes"

"DON PHILLIPS MASON"

"Poet"

"Maternal FAMATINA"

"ELIAS ANNOUNCES THE PROMISED LAND"

"MONICA RECUMBENT"

"THREE THANKS Botticelli "

"LA MAJA MAJA DRESSED AND NUDE DE GOYA"

Some of his exhibitions in Argentina, Latin America and Europe.

In Cordoba

Emilio Caraffa Museum, Museum of Cordoba Bank, City Bank, Manhattan Chasse, College of Architects, Association of Notaries, Feldman Gallery, National Radio, and "Modern Painting Shows Hispano Argentina", organized by "Hispanic Culture" and Genaro Perez Museum. Reopening of the Historic Cabildo of Córdoba. Exhibition of 150 obras.1992. Amerian currently permanent exhibition - Córdoba Park Hotel.

In Buenos Aires:

Galleries Muller, Viscontea, Witcomb, Van Riel, arthe, Pearl Marino, Argentine Painters. Opera Theatre - Teatro IFT, "Argentina Society of Artists," 25 th Anniversary Commemoration of the United Nations, held in Marino Gallery. Currently permanent exhibition Amerian Buenos Aires Park Hotel.

As well as in several cities of Argentina such as: Tucumán, Santiago del Estero, Rosario, Mar del Plata, Mendoza, Comodoro Rivadavia.

Abroad:

Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru, Mexico, Venice, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Israel, France, the Netherlands.

  Argentine critics

That have dealt with his work and his career: Rodrigo Bonome, Alberto Balearia, Joseph of Spain, E. Carbalho González, Leonidas Barletta, Jouvin Columbres.

FOREIGN CRITICS

Spanish: José Camon Aznar, J. Maria Campoy and Alfonso Sanchez.

Criticism made by David Alfaro Sisqueiros, in submitting his sample made in 1968 at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Mexico

Collectibles:  

In Argentina, Chile, Mexico, USA, Venezuela, Denmark, Spain, France, Italy, Morocco and Japan.  

Bibliography:  

Dictionary of painting Argentina.

His works include in:

Emilio Caraffa Museum, Córdoba. "Genaro Pérez" Córdoba, Córdoba Province Bank, Association of Notaries, Courts of the Province of Córdoba. Lottery Córdoba Province, Government House, Córdoba. Museo de la Catedral de Córdoba (vestry). Cardinal Raul Fco Primatesta, Bishop Laffite and Ramon Fermin Castellanos and Brochero. Museo Manuel de Falla, Alta Gracia, Museum of Fine Arts, Mar del Plata, President of The Nation., Santiago del Estero Museum (Ramón Gómez Cornet) and in various institutions and companies of Argentina. Vatican Museum, Rome. Ayuntamiento de Cádiz, Spain .. Modern Art Museum of Israel. Argentina Embassy in the Netherlands.  

MAN AS REASON CENTRAL

The central motif of Henry Monaco is the man, and implicitly the drama of man, and furthermore, the drama of man in his own country, Argentina. This constitutes the first and essential virtue, but it does by way of a realistic routine, but seeks, in his drawings as her paintings, a more comprehensive reality, which is one that is manifested in a more emotional expression high, ie, more contemporary, as the true realism was not, by no means exhausted by the great masters of the best times of the past.

Make men even more alive, even more operative, that is, even more dynamic, obviously concerned about the process of his work.

Henry's concern Monaco mural, whose technique has been demonstrated many times, and among them, work he did with me in the poly-forum with my name, in Mexico City, makes me think that in this way, not only different, but opposite the easel box, you can reach increasingly higher stages.

David Alfaro Siqueiros - Mexico 1974  

HUMANITY, vehement, SIMPLICITY AND PURITY

  When the drawing is an expression that has its genesis in the guts of sensitivity, it certainly comes with enough qualifications to enter without bans, in the most hidden inwardly of the beholder. In this case, the drawing becomes a gesture so typical of who is doing it to separate from the person is like condemning is for consumption or suffocation.

That is the idea that emerges from the drawings of Henry Monaco whose line, uniquely sensitive, vented his brilliant humanity, as if there were tight enough to prevent valve.

And that is the merit that we highlight here, because a drawing of this nature, flesh and soul of an idea, strength of will that borders on stubbornness, sets an aesthetic attitude with the same precision that is set in sealing the printing of a stamp.

Enrique Monaco has reached the secrets of drawing as others come to the essence of human behavior becoming saints: in a state of eagerness. His line that has the characteristics of a secret, is bursting with the force that gives her faith in art and moving up within their domains.

For these drawings are astray a man who has managed to live intensely, which has given financial strength clean language to communicate with their peers, and use it to approach the human soul with the simplicity and purity with which the prophets communicated with God in solitude Desert thick and leaden.

October 1968

Rodrigo Bonome

"The drawings of the painter Henry Monaco on display at the Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid are level with the best of times. "

Madrid, Spain, 1968.

Joseph M. Campoy

THE ART OF MONACO

The views from the plastic forms: the feelings through poetry here the artistic personality of the great Argentine painter Enrique Monaco

There are works racial depth and fluidity of touch. Their models are designed in a room which is not statutory but vivid. But as calm and meditative pause. Their colors are not shiny but crumbled in relief tied with bodily strength. There are works that in Monaco a certain duality between the strongly modeled and loose cloth in long strokes. Art in its most characteristic figure summarizes the model, but without extreme expression, with the strength and even respect for noble human face. Art that makes it compatible so poetic delicacy of the portrait sometimes model.

Landscapes and figures all emotional part of that unit that does not overlap, but merges with art for both released and defining the volume. Built to modern art but based on a direct view of reality.

José Camon Aznar - Spain 1973

Director of Art Museum Lazaro Galdeano

Madrid

Director of the Arts magazine Goya