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RAFAEL BLANCO MERINO (Malaga, 1864-1899). "Andalusian street". Oil on canvas. Presents restorations in the pictorial surface. Preserves period frame with faults. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 141 x 86,5 cm; 166,5 x 111 cm (frame). Landscape of costumbrista character in which the author takes advantage of a view starring the local architecture. The lack of human presence demonstrates the artist's interest in capturing the landscape and the atmospheric effects reflected in it. It is a painting with a pictorialist technique and a palette dominated by warm tones, capturing the work in the field on a summer's day with a veristic intention. With quick brushstrokes and intuitive touches, the impression of the whole does not obviate the detail and the care of the execution. The artist focuses on the work of lights, chromatic ranges and textures. The new nineteenth-century costume painting was born as a way of interpreting a growing sense of national consciousness, now present in the middle class as it moved toward social hegemony. To a certain extent, the painters' concern was to deepen the vision of their country through a language, that of painting, that everyone could understand, thus helping the common people to understand the nature and meaning of their nationality, especially as it had manifested itself in the recent past, still alive in the memory of the elders. Of the two fundamental costumbrista schools of 19th century Spain, the one from Seville and the one from Madrid, the latter differs from the kindly picturesqueness of the former in its more pungent and harsh vision, sometimes going so far as to show not only the vulgar, but even recreating itself in torn visions of a clichéd world of the slums, in which the spirit of criticism is evident. It presents restorations in the pictorial surface.

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RAFAEL BLANCO MERINO (Malaga, 1864-1899). "Andalusian street". Oil on canvas. Presents restorations in the pictorial surface. Preserves period frame with faults. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 141 x 86,5 cm; 166,5 x 111 cm (frame). Landscape of costumbrista character in which the author takes advantage of a view starring the local architecture. The lack of human presence demonstrates the artist's interest in capturing the landscape and the atmospheric effects reflected in it. It is a painting with a pictorialist technique and a palette dominated by warm tones, capturing the work in the field on a summer's day with a veristic intention. With quick brushstrokes and intuitive touches, the impression of the whole does not obviate the detail and the care of the execution. The artist focuses on the work of lights, chromatic ranges and textures. The new nineteenth-century costume painting was born as a way of interpreting a growing sense of national consciousness, now present in the middle class as it moved toward social hegemony. To a certain extent, the painters' concern was to deepen the vision of their country through a language, that of painting, that everyone could understand, thus helping the common people to understand the nature and meaning of their nationality, especially as it had manifested itself in the recent past, still alive in the memory of the elders. Of the two fundamental costumbrista schools of 19th century Spain, the one from Seville and the one from Madrid, the latter differs from the kindly picturesqueness of the former in its more pungent and harsh vision, sometimes going so far as to show not only the vulgar, but even recreating itself in torn visions of a clichéd world of the slums, in which the spirit of criticism is evident. It presents restorations in the pictorial surface.

Estimate 6 500 - 7 000 EUR
Starting price 4 000 EUR

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