(Tacuarembó, 1919).

An Uruguayan artist who studied with Joaquín Torres García at his renowned School of the South in Montevideo. Alpuy modified the rigid Constructivist style of his master into a more humanistic and light-hearted version. In Cuerpos Pintados, he transferred that magical world of signs and symbols onto the skin of his models, transforming a simple game of symbols into a visual language of images in movement filled with joy.