In this interview, painter and educator Domingo Bazzurro assesses Uruguayan painting and the role of the Círculo de Bellas Artes (CBA), which was founded in 1905 for art education and for activating the local art scene. That center of teaching and outreach in painting, drawing, sculpture, and design and artisanal disciplines had become the most important art school in Uruguay. It benefitted from incipient criticism as a number of cultural phenomena were taking shape in informal gatherings, the formation of artists groups, and an array of new publications such as Agrupación Teseo, La Cruz del Sur, La Pluma, and others. The interviewer, most likely Alberto Lasplaces—director of La Cruz del Sur—gears his questions to an assessment of Uruguayan painting and to the cultural profile of the CBA, specifically regarding its efforts in favor of the law that created a system of artistic fellowships for study in Europe (the article includes a list of fellowships available); emphasis is placed on art events in the local milieu and abroad, organized by the CBA, that furthered regional exchange. It is likely that Bazzurro was thinking about Uruguayan participation in the major centennial exhibition held in Buenos Aires, which featured young artists whose work matured in their later production, and also another exhibition organized by the Círculo de Bellas Artes presented in 1912 at the Ateneo in Montevideo in which Argentinean and Brazilian artists figured prominently.