Letra y Línea. Revista de cultura contemporánea. Artes plásticas. Literatura. Teatro. Cine. Música. Crítica. [Letter and Line. Magazine of Contemporary Culture. Visual Arts. Literature. Drama. Cinema. Music. Criticism] was a contemporary culture publication edited by Aldo Pellegrini (1903-73), whose four issues appeared between October 1953 and July 1954. Its collaborators included Edgar Bayley (1919-90), Osvaldo Svanascini (1920), Oliverio Girondo (1891-1967), Mario Trejo (1926), Enrique Molina (1910-1997), Juan Carlos Paz (1897-1972), and Norah Lange (1906-72), among many others. The survey’s agenda was based on the following questions: 1) What is the fundamental nature of painting in your opinion?; 2) Where is modern painting headed?; 3) Is there such a thing as Argentinean painting?; 4) Do you believe in the previous generation? Tomás Maldonado (1922), Sarah Grilo (1921-2007), José Manuel Moraña (1917-2005), Fernández Muro (1920), Juan Cerdá Carretero, Ideal Sánchez (1916-1988), Lidy Prati (1921), Víctor Magariños “D” (1924-93), and Miguel Ocampo (1922) responded to the survey.
Sarah Grilo is an Argentinean artist who was born in 1921. She developed her work within the informalist abstract trend; at the beginning of the 1950s Grilo joined the Grupo de Artistas Modernos de la Argentina [Modern Artists Group of Argentina], after which she lived in Madrid, where she died in 2007.
This article was selected because it documents a young artist’s opinion regarding the debates that were then mobilizing the Argentinean artistic field at the moment abstraction was being consolidated.