{{Short description|Chilean painter (1893–1983)}}{{Family name hatnote|Alpi|Ghirardi|lang=Spanish}}{{Infobox artist | name = Judith Alpi | image = Judith Alpi (Zig Zag, 1926) (cropped).png | birth_place = Santiago | birth_date = {{Birth date|1893|3|3}} | death_place = Santiago | death_date = {{death date and age|1983|2|5|1893|3|3}} | known_for = Portraiture | notable_works = Portraits of Laura Rodig; the work ''White Kimono'' | movement = Generación del 13 }}
'''Judith Alpi Ghirardi''' (3 March 1893 - 5 February 1983) was a Chilean painter and teacher, who was known for her work in portraiture. A member of Generación del 13, she exhibited nationally and internationally and was awarded prizes for her works. She produced several highly regarded portraits of the artist Laura Rodig.
== Biography == Alpi was born in Santiago on 3 March 1893.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Judith Alpi - Artistas Visuales Chilenos, AVCh, MNBA |url=https://www.artistasvisualeschilenos.cl/658/w3-article-40092.html |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=www.artistasvisualeschilenos.cl}}</ref> She studied at the School of Fine Arts in Santiago, where she was taught by Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, Juan Francisco González and Alberto Valenzuela Llanos.<ref name=":0" /> Known for her portraiture, and self-portraiture,<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Cortés Aliaga |first=Gloria |date=2013-10-16 |title=Estéticas de resistencia: Las artistas chilenas y la vanguardia femenina (1900-1936) |url=https://journals.openedition.org/artelogie/5341 |journal=Artelogie. Recherche sur les arts, le patrimoine et la littérature de l'Amérique latine |language=es |issue=5 |doi=10.4000/artelogie.5341 |issn=2115-6395|url-access=subscription }}</ref> she became a member of the movement known as Generación del 13.<ref name=":0" />
During this time Alpi was painted by Elmina Moisan.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=itVUjM1eXWEC&dq=judith+alpi&pg=PA109 |title=Historia De La Pintura Chilena |publisher=Andres Bello |language=es}}</ref> Along with Moisan, Alpi exhibited her work alongside Ximena Morla de Subercaseaux, Sara Camino (es), Dora Puelma and Miriam Sanfuentes from 1915 to 1916.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lO-ZbNCbkwQC&dq=judith+alpi&pg=PA196 |title=La Mujer Chilena |date=1972 |publisher=Andres Bello |language=es}}</ref> These works were shown in what were termed the 'Salons of Santaiago' and Alpi was one of the first six artists to exhibit in them.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2019-08-27 |title=Mujeres Bacanas {{!}} Judith Alpi (1893-1983) |url=https://mujeresbacanas.com/judith-alpi-1893-1983/ |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=Mujeres Bacanas |language=es-CL}}</ref> Prizes were awarded to Alpi, including: third prize medal in 1915; second prize in 1919, the portrait prize in 1924, and the first prize medal in 1926.<ref name=":2" /> She also exhibited internationally, for example at the Ibero-American Exhibition in Seville in 1929, where her work ''White Kimono'' was awarded a prize. She also showed work at the Exhibition of Contemporary Chilean Paintings and Sculptures in Buenos Aires in 1953.<ref name=":3" />
Alpi was a lecturer at the School of Plastic Arts at Liceo Nº1 de Niñas in Santiago.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bindis |first=Ricardo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mjA4AQAAIAAJ&q=judith+alpi |title=Chilean painting, two hundred years |date=2006 |publisher=Origo |isbn=978-956-8077-34-1 |language=es}}</ref> She was also a founder National Society of Fine Arts, together with the painters Juan Francisco González and Pedro Reszka.<ref name=":0" /> She died in Santiago on 5 February 1983.<ref name=":0" />
== Legacy == In 2017 the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts exhibited one of Alpi's portraits of the artist Laura Rodig as part of the exhibition ''Ellas por ellas mismas.''<ref name=":3" /> Her work today is recognised for its focus on women's identity - in particular the Rodig portraits are known for how they depict the complexity of the artist's character.<ref name=":1" />
== References == <references />{{Authority control}} {{commons}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Alpi, Judith}} Category:1893 births Category:1983 deaths Category:20th-century Chilean painters Category:Artists from Santiago, Chile Category:Chilean portrait painters Category:Chilean art educators Category:Chilean women educators Category:Women art educators Category:Chilean lecturers Category:20th-century Chilean women painters