Argentina (The Spanish Dancer)

Dorothea Foster Black was an Australian painter and printmaker of the Modernist school known for pioneering Modernism in Australia. The Modernism and Cubist art movement she was exposed to in London and Paris strongly influenced her. By the time she returned to her home country in late 1929, Black had become an active proponent of the Cubist style and brought it back to Australia. Argentina (the Spanish Dancer) is a fascinating mixture of modernism and cubism full of life and vitality—aspects so much needed during the Great Depression (the economic shock that affected most countries across the world), which had started in the year when this linocut was created.

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