Taller Torres Garcia

{{Short description|Uruguayan art school (founded 1943)}}

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| yearsactive = 1943–1963

| country = Uruguay

| majorfigures = Joaquín Torres-García

| influences = Universal Constructivism

| influenced = Julio Alpuy, José Gurvich, Gonzalo Fonseca

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Taller Torres Garcia (sometimes abbreviated TTG) was an organization founded by Joaquín Torres-García in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1943. It was also known as "La Escuela del Sur" ("School of the South").{{Cite web |last=Wilkin |first=Karen |date=1993-04-01 |title=From the workshop of Torres-Garcia |url=https://newcriterion.com/article/from-the-workshop-of-torres-garcaa/ |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=New Criterion |language=en-US}} He intended it to serve as a form of art education that would support young artists.{{cite book |last1=Ramirez |first1=Mari Carmen |title=El Taller Torres-García: The School of the South and Its Legacy |date=1992 |publisher=University of Texas Press |location=Austin |isbn=9780292781214 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/eltallertorresga0000unse }}{{cite web |title=La Escuela del Sur. El taller Torres-García y su legado |url=https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/escuela-sur-taller-torres-garcia-su-legado |website=museoreinasofia.es |publisher=Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía |accessdate=August 2, 2019}} The group organized exhibitions and published its own magazine. Its members included many prominent artists, such as Torres-García’s sons Augusto Torres and Horacio Torres, Julio Alpuy, José Gurvich, and Gonzalo Fonseca.{{cite web |title=JOSÉ GURVICH |url=http://www.oas.org/artsoftheamericas/jose-gurvich |website=oas.org |publisher=Organization of American States |accessdate=August 2, 2019}} The group built on the ideas of Torres-Garcia, including Universal Constructivism, and were influential in advancing modern art in Uruguay. The group later dissolved in 1963.{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Kalenberg |first1=Angel |editor-first1=Maria-Laura |editor-last1=Steverlynck |title=Taller Torres-Garcia |chapter=Taller Torres García |date=2003 |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T083176 |publisher=Oxford Art Online|isbn=978-1-884446-05-4 }}