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Eduardo Mazariegos
(Soria, 1952)
Movimiento
1983
cast in patinated bronze
45 x 39 x 24,3 cm
Inv. no. 33
BBVA Collection Spain
A painter and sculptor from Soria with heightened artistic sensibility and consummate skill in handling material, Mazariegos’s style could be placed somewhere between postmodernism and neo-
Romanticism
A cultural movement born in Germany and the United Kingdom in the late-eighteenth century, as a reaction against the Enlightenment. It extolled the expression of feelings and the search for personal freedom. It spread throughout Europe, with different manifestations depending on the country. In painting, Romanticism reached its peak in France between 1820 and 1850, replacing Neoclassicism. It main purpose was to oppose the strictures of academic painting, departing from the Classicist tradition grounded in a set of strict rules. Instead it advocated a more subjective and original style of painting. Its main formal features are the use of marked contrasts of light, the preponderance of colour over drawing and the use of impetuous and spontaneous brushwork to increase the dramatic effect. Its greatest exponents were: Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) in Germany; John Constable (1776-1837) and J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) in the UK; and Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) and Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) in France.
. With his work he is able to make the spectator tingle with emotion, transporting him to an imaginary world where anything is possible by means of chiselling curves, folds and fantasy forms.
In the case of
Arquero bailarín
and
Movimiento
, both dated in the same year, he uses bronze as his material of choice to capture a dreamlike world. The
dancing archer
is transformed into a fantasy magical character that seems to be caught in a dancing movement charged with sensibility. With regards
Movimiento
, the figure is barely recognisable, opening outwards in a movement full of vitality.
Figura
from 1978 is masterfully carved in wood to give form to what might appear to be a woman with sensual curves and forms in a wanton pose.
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