(b. Fray Bentos, Uruguay, 1918; d. Montevideo, 1993).
Uruguayan printmaker and painter. He moved to Montevideo in 1934 to study drawing and painting at the Circulo de Bellas Artes until 1937 under Guillermo Laborde (1886-1940). He pursued his particular interest in etching in 1952 during a three month course at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Edouard Goerg (1893-1968), and from 1967 to 1969 he took advanced courses at the Pratt Graphic Center and the New York Graphic Workshop under Brazilian Roberto De Lamonica (b. 1933) and the Uruguayan Luis Camnitzer (b 1937). His most notable works, including mezzotints and acrylic paintings are of clumsy animal-like masked figures whose costumes reveal rather than conceal their true identity. The humanist conception carries vestiges both of the medieval period and the colonial legacy. Among Solari’s many prizes and distinctions were first prizes for drawings Salon Nacional de Bellas Artes in Montevideo
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