{"id":57,"date":"2022-07-12T21:35:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T00:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercedeslarreta.com.ar\/sitio\/inicio\/"},"modified":"2024-10-06T16:29:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T19:29:26","slug":"inicio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mercedeslarreta.com.ar\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mercedeslarreta.com.ar\/sitio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ML-libro-web.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-272\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">If Mercedes Larreta\u2019s genealogy as an artist were to be written according to the model Marcus Aurelius provides in Book I of his <i>Meditations<\/i>, it might begin with a strict chronology of her teachers and what she got from each one of them: from Eduardo Audivert (1990), the magic of watercolor and acceptance of the independent will of the drop and its pigment; from Guillermo Roux (2005), the soft fate of oil paint; from Norberto Marcet (2009), representation of the human figure and the reflex to capture the fleeting in its fleetingness; from Lima-native Eulogio de Jes\u00fas (2016), the freedom that comes from a honest critique of one\u2019s own work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mercedes Larreta comes from a family of artists; she herself has, for years, divided her interest between painting and poetry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mercedes Larreta\u2019s art, which never ever looks away from trees and rivers, begins with the joyous uncertainty of the line, with its unlikely outburst to then, pursuant to a maturation process that seems utterly effortless, deliver us back to drawing, no longer as contingency but as necessity. Wisely closed in on itself, each work offers us a chance to contemplate an open horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Mercedes Larreta\u2019s genealogy as an artist were to be written according to the model Marcus Aurelius provides in Book I of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page_fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-57","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mercedeslarreta.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mercedeslarreta.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mercedeslarreta.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mercedeslarreta.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mercedeslarreta.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mercedeslarreta.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/mercedeslarreta.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mercedeslarreta.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}