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Imagenes Liricas/New Spanish Visions

  •  Imagenes Liricas/New Spanish Visions
  •  Imagenes Liricas/New Spanish Visions
  •  Imagenes Liricas/New Spanish Visions
  •  Imagenes Liricas/New Spanish Visions

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Following the death of General Francisco Franco on November 20, 1975, Spain witnessed dramatic and extensive transformations in its political, economic, social, and cultural life. Following nearly half a century of iron-fisted and quixotic dictatorial rule, preceded by more than a century of debilitating internal strife, in the late 1970s Spain stridently repositioned itself within the framework of western civilization. A slowly simmering dream of revision erupted and became a palpable reality. After forty years of isolation, young Spanish artists are now not only part and parcel of the rich tapestry of Spain, they are also – in an atmosphere of pluralism – partakers of modes and themes that derive from British Pop Art, European expressionism, lyrical American abstraction, and broad-based conceptualism.

 

Although their attitudes range from conceptual biases to stances delicately balanced between abstraction and figuration, two overriding characteristics bridge their efforts, which are – for want of a more profound definition – essentially poetic. Theirs also is a subjective reality, manifest in meditations upon our state of being and of art. Their work is – even when seemingly abstract – referential, and gives up its larger meanings slowly, through repetition, reflection, and serial examination. Their art – although it partakes of international Modernism – is indisputably Spanish and they seem to be the inheritors of a long tradition that encompasses an earthy, tactile romanticism, which derives from a special empathy with Iberian light, landscape, and ornamentation. Among these eight artists, similar concerns are expressed through disparate means.

 

- Excerpt from catalogue essay by Lucinda Barnes, 1990

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University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach
Long Beach, CA, United States
January 1, 1970 - January 1, 1970

Sarah Campbell Blaffner Gallery, University of Houston
Houston, TX, United States
January 1, 1970 - July 4, 1991

Albright-Knox Gallery
Buffalo, NY, United States
December 5, 1990 - January 7, 1990

The Queens Museum
Flushing, NY, United States
January 1, 1970 - October 6, 1984

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