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Benito Quinquela Martin La Cambino Analysis

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Make the world vibrant and a glowing array of colour in as many communities as possible. Assemble neighbourhoods of citizens and contribute to the prosperity and happiness of society. Rejoice in all that one has to be grateful for and step forward to create the same opportunities for others. After living in the La Boca neighbourhood for nearly sixty years of his life, artist, Benito Quinquela Martin strived to rejuvenate the youthfulness of Caminito Street in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He set out on his journey to repaint the contrasting architectural scenery in the 1950s that was constructed by immigrant dock workers in the late 1880s. The vast colour sequences were so different from the rest of Argentina that it soon became a highly popular

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