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Julio Alpuy The Earth III , 1965 Incised and painted wood, 35 × 38¾ in. Ernesto Poma Family Collection
In 1962, frustrated by the repetition of his previous paintings, Alpuy turned to wood as a medium. This offered him “a new, more concrete spatial element,” as he recalled, in line with the pictographic, constructivist style of the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García, by whom he had been taught. The carefully carved and painted surface here demonstrates the particular influence of pre-Columbian art from the Andean region. The downward-glancing eye imitates the circular forms that proliferate across the surface. —HJ
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