Argentine painter and illustrator, was born in Mar del Plata in 1908 m. in 1972. (GRAND PRIX NATIONAL HALL OF HONOR AO 1961) Graduated from the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Ernesto de la Crcova completing its formation in Spilimbergo, Victor Gómez Cornet, and in Paris with Braque , Picasso and AndrLothe. Realizvariadas activities related to culture both from official positions and from the private sector. Has received important awards in the country and abroad, among which are: the Special Prize Drawing at the Biennial of Mexico (1962), Medal of Honor in painting from the International Fair of Brussels and the Sal n saigne International (1962-1963). His work is in numerous art museums and major private collections. ___________________________________________________________________________ "Castagnino painting focuses on the man. Integrates the human figure in the landscape, ennobles the presence of his creatures of flesh and bone, without tempering hardness too gesture that has sealed life. We note a sudden serenity giacondesca "in some of his portraits of village women, whose hands repeat the gesture of painting by Leonardo. People from the north, the Uruguay Parano landscapes, shores of Mar del Plata, suburbs porteos: many different FIELDS of the country have given a subject for interpretation Castagnino entraable.Su national flavor, however, not achieved solely by virtue of its themed as ours, but, above all, an atmosphere, for a particular radiance of heaven, for a color that seems to learn from the earth. Castagnino are these red cliffs lying beside the waters, with a wild tuft of green plants. Those horses belong sheeplike Creole nerve profile in the head, mane loose, broad noses that sniff of freedom in the air, the vaccine bones, bleached by the sun and wind, under whose antlers in the orbits of proportion, the young grass or purple thistle recommence life, some maternity workers, in which lyrical tenderness does not diminish the impact of painful and silent protest, are, finally, of this creatures the people and things, which he has managed to close with fervor solidarity.