Copas Painting

During the Spanish Civil War in the 1950s, the art world was transformed by great Spanish artists such Antonio Saura (1930-1998) and Antoni Tapies (1923-2012), that inspired by surrealism and american abstract expressionism, led to a type of unconventional artwork. An abstract artwork, with dense textures, with a range of neutral colors and with poor and ephemeral materials such as earth and cardboard. As part of this circle of artists, Estartus began an artistic revolution through his materialistic and informal artwork. He leaves behind the old tradition of separating the canvas from the artwork in favor of uniting them into a single piece like a wall. By investigating the materials and experimenting with them, he creates a three-dimensional artwork. Using the support as a wall, he makes incisions, grooves, and perforations. He applies the technique of grattage, and leaves traces of the passage of time with the changing material, such as rusted metal. An artist's strong tendency towards informalism is evident in this artwork with transgressive character. By using a spontaneous technique, he creates this artwork through a process of abstraction; guided by the passion and emotion of the moment. The support is handled conventionally, and the cardboard cuttings will be what bind the belly of the canvas, its body. This planar bandaging will inevitably take us to Malevich and possibly to analytical cubism. In any case, the content of the canvas has connotations that seek a precise alphabet and numbering, like in a mobile image, in a visual world where social communication is still planned through the graphic language of signs. He combines paint, grease pencil, and glued broken cardboard. He uses a great variety of techniques like grattage. Stains and symbols are drawn onto the canvas in an emblematic circuit; horizontal and vertical strips divide and fragment the support, creating a matter painting.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:36.2 W x 25.6 H x 1.2 D in

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