Antonio Saura was born in Huesca in 1930 and died in Basin in 1998. He starts to paint and to write in Madrid, in 1947, while recovering from tuberculosis keeps him immobilized for five years. Top searches and first pictorial experiences. Claimed the influence of Arp and Tanguy, but is distinguished as a personal style; created numerous drawings and paintings of nature dreamlike and surrealistic in which generally represents imaginary landscapes that plasma in a matter flat, smooth and rich in color. First stay in Paris in 1952. Second period in Paris between 1954 and 1955, during which known as Benjamin Péret, and frequents the group of surrealists, the soon-to step back along with his friend the painter Simon Hantaï.
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Used then the technique of grattage, adopts a style and gestural painting radically abstract, colorful, conception organic and random. He starts to paint occupying the space of the canvas in several very different ways, creating formal structures of their own that does not cease to develop. First appearances of forms that will soon become archetypes of the body of the woman or of the human figure, two fundamental issues that will occupy the essence of her work. From 1956 Saura began his great series, Ladies, Nudes, self-Portraits, Shrouds, Crucifixion, painted on both canvas as well as on paper. In 1957, founded in Madrid in the El Paso group, which will lead to its dissolution in 1960. He meets Michel Tapié. First solo exhibition at the gallery of Rodolphe Stadler, in Paris, where it will exhibit a constant throughout his life. Stadler presented to Otto van de Loo, Munich, and Pierre Matisse in New York, who also present their work and they will represent you. Limits then his palette to blacks, grays and browns. It is stated in a style of their own and independent of the movements and trends of his generation. His work is part of the line of Velázquez and Goya. Enters the main museums. Starting in 1959, is dedicated to a prolific graphic work. Illustrated in an original way numerous books such as Don Quixote, Cervantes, 1984, Orwell, Pinocchio in the adaptation of Nöstlinger, Tagebücher, Kafka, Three visions of Quevedo, and many others. In 1960 he begins to sculpt and perform works composed with elements of metal soldier who will represent the human figure, characters and crucifixions. In 1967 he settled permanently in Paris; it is involved in the opposition to franco's dictatorship, and takes part in numerous debates and controversies in the fields of politics, aesthetics and artistic creation. Extends your registration thematic and pictorial. Along with the series Women-armchair is shown the Portraits imaginary, The Goya's dog and imaginary Portrait of Goya. In 1971 leaves painting on canvas, which will take over in 1979, to devote himself to writing, drawing and painting on paper. Beginning in 1977, begins to publish his writings and performs several stage designs for the theatre, as well as for the ballet and the opera. In 1983, created an important series of portraits titled Dora Maar or Dora Maar visited. From that date until his untimely death takes up and develops masterfully set of themes and figures to produce, perhaps, the best of his work.
