whataboutbobbed
Recreo (Recreation) by Petrona Viera, circa 1924.
Museu Nacional de Artes Visuais (MNAV), Montevideo, Uruguay.
The daughter of Uruguayan President Feliciano Viera, Petrona is considered the first female professional painter in Uruguay. She was part of the Planismo (flat-ism) movement of austere lines and bright colors. Unlike other artists of her period, Petrona never studied in Europe. Instead she worked at home with instructors such as Guillermo Laborde. Deaf from the age of two, Petrona found another way to express herself in art.
The figures in the painting above are playing “Martín Pescador,” a game similar in mechanics but not lyrics to “London Bridge is Falling Down.”