Exclusive Arte Felguerez Iron And Papermache Sculpture Art Jazz Singer Retail $425

A set of remarkable figurines melded in iron with papermache designs containing basic geometric figures such as circles, triangles, rectangles and squares to form these charming musicians. https://artefelguerez.com/cat/music/

The artist, a winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship Award is Manuel Felguérez Barra (12 December 1928 – 8 June 2020), a Mexican abstract artist, part of the Generación de la Ruptura that broke with the muralist movement of Diego Rivera and others in the mid 20th century. The formation of Felguérez's style and imagery is closely tied to the various European movements incorporating geometric-constructivist, informalism and abstract expressionism which he was exposed to in his early training. His work has been compared to that of Picasso and Rufino Tamayo by art experts such as Teresa del Conde. He claimed many influences but did not follow any one specifically. He regularly visited art museums to look for inspiration. His creations never reference death because to him art is life. He did not believe that art is necessarily for catharsis and his emotions are not reflected in his work. His focus is on aesthetics, painting more with the head then the hands. Felguérez described himself as a "producer and seller of aesthetic pleasure." He characterized himself as a person of constant experimentation, as he believed constant evolution distinguishes the artist from the artisan, who repeats styles and forms. He was against the "Neo-nationalism" movement in Mexican art as he did not like "neo" anything, since it means repeating something that has been done before. However, changes in his work gradual, rather than leaping from one style to another. His work from the mid 1970s involves the use of computing processes, the subject continues to be geometrical shapes. The idea of the use of computers evolved from the repetition of forms, those findings were published by Felguerez in his book "El espacio multiple" (The Multiple Space). In 1975 after obtaining a scholarship from the Guggenheim Foundation which allowed him to do research at Harvard University, he started experimenting with computers aided by the computer science engineer Mayer Sasson with whom he published the book "La Máquina Estética" (The Aesthetic Machine). Felguérez is considered to have been a pioneer of the digital art in Mexico. His emphasis on the new as well as his negative experience with establishment artists of the 1940s caused him to state emphatically that he did not want to create another school of art in Mexico.
Dimensions: Singer: 3”D x 9”H
Condition: Good.

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