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Elegy To The Spanish Republic (2018)Acrylic painting by Gerard Boersma
20.32 x 20.32 x 2.54cm (unframed)
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Original artwork description
Motherwell intended his Elegies to the Spanish Republic (over 100 paintings, completed between 1948 and 1967) as a "lamentation or funeral song" after the Spanish Civil War.
His recurring motif here is a rough black oval, repeated in varying sizes and degrees of compression and distortion. Instead of appearing as holes leading into a deeper space, these light-absorbent blots stand out against a ground of relatively even, predominantly white upright rectangles.
They have various associations, but Motherwell himself related them to the display of the dead bull's testicles in the Spanish bullfighting ring.
Materials used:
Acrylic on masonite
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Panel / Board / MDF
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 20.32 x 20.32 x 2.54cm (unframed)
- Signed on the back
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#spanish civil war#elegy to the spanish republic#abstract#woman#colorful#abstract expressionism#figurative#realism#photorealism#hyperrealism#museum#spanish#looking at art#famous#looking at painting#robert motherwell
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Original artwork description
Motherwell intended his Elegies to the Spanish Republic (over 100 paintings, completed between 1948 and 1967) as a "lamentation or funeral song" after the Spanish Civil War.
His recurring motif here is a rough black oval, repeated in varying sizes and degrees of compression and distortion. Instead of appearing as holes leading into a deeper space, these light-absorbent blots stand out against a ground of relatively even, predominantly white upright rectangles.
They have various associations, but Motherwell himself related them to the display of the dead bull's testicles in the Spanish bullfighting ring.
Materials used:
Acrylic on masonite
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Panel / Board / MDF
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 20.32 x 20.32 x 2.54cm (unframed)
- Signed on the back
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#spanish civil war#elegy to the spanish republic#abstract#woman#colorful#abstract expressionism#figurative#realism#photorealism#hyperrealism#museum#spanish#looking at art#famous#looking at painting#robert motherwell
Gerard Boersma
Netherlands
About
I create colorful and highly detailed works of art to express my love for the modern human as well as my concerns about contemporary society.
My hyperreal paintings are based... Read more