Constantino Grandío

(Santa Olalla de Lousada, Lugo, 1925 – Lugo, 1977)

Author's artworks

20th Century Spanish

This self-taught artist started working within the field of sculpture, taking the traditional forms from Galician art as his bedrock reference. Thanks to a scholarship from the Provincial Council of Lugo, he moved to Madrid, where he joined the group known as the
. Though he always refused to explain his influences, he did confess his admiration for Georges Braque (1882-1963), as well as for his contemporaries Juan Manuel Díaz Caneja (1905-1988) and Cristina Mallo (1905-1989), with whom he regularly met in the intellectual and literary gatherings at Café Gijón when he first arrived to Madrid.

The recipient of countless awards, he started off within the confines of figuration, with landscapes and scenes set in the countryside, before eventually evolving towards abstraction.

Except for a few instances, his painting is largely monochrome, particularly within the spectrum of greys. His landscapes seem to appear through a dense mist in which formal references are almost non-existent.