Ver y Estimar: una manera extemporánea de pensar la conciliación de las artes

Abstract

The purpose of this writing is to show that in the context of the magazine Ver y Estimar, Jorge Romero Brest ―together with his disciples Angelina Camiccia, Samuel Oliver and Damián Bayón― present a conceptual difficulty to approach and understand modern architecture. From the rejection ―in order to architecture― to the most radical functionalist theories, they address a type of relationship or integration of the arts and architecture, attending to the topic space as an element of articulation between these disciplines, opposed to those of the more radical avant-garde, represented in Buenos Aires, by Tomás Maldonado and the Asociación Arte Concreto Invención. Therefore, from the analysis of different articles, it is interpreted that, in Ver y Estimar, they expressthe ideas and beliefs about the type of artisticity typical of design and architecture, largely reproducing the traditional values of art. Therefore, the supposed synthesis of the arts, was thought around four ideas: 1) the turn towards an “abstract geometrism”; 2) the criticism of ornament; 3) an extemporaneous way of thinking about the conciliation between the arts; and 4) a stale idea about the meaning of architecture.conciliation between the arts; and 4) a stale idea about the meaning of architecture.