Portal de Lorca
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The Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, and the Director General of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage of the Autonomous Region, Enrique Ujaldón, presented this morning show "Muñoz Barberán, drawings and sketches, which will open tomorrow at 19:00 hours in the Museum Garden Ruano, and is organized by the Department of Culture of the City in honor of the recently deceased painter Lorca.
Lorca wanted to join the memory of his illustrious son, which has recently completed the first anniversary of his death, an exhibition that brings us to the most intimate of artistic creation featuring a collection of drawings and sketches that have rarely seen the light.
This exhibition can be visited free of charge until 15 March, is a unique opportunity to delve into the mechanics of creation and see first hand, these proposals and ideas that emerged at the head of our painter and light embodied in notes or larger newsprint, when it was harder composition.
The exhibition includes works very young as a few drawings from 30 to 40, rising to 96, and as sketches have been selected within a broad chronology, those of greatest interest (Guerra Teatro, Teatro Concha Segura, etc.) and others showing their important facet of religious murals.
Special interest are those that relate to the paintings in the Basilica of the Immaculate Yecla and he made for the roof of the canopy of the Virgin of Bitterness which could not be done.
The exhibition will also have a few but significant oil paintings whose subject matter of their study environment.
The Mayor has indicated that this sample also includes "a varied repertoire of notes, sketches and drawings taken from nature, some unpublished.
We get into the genesis and the inner world of this admired artist to hear ideas and inspirations of a restless man who looks at the objects with curiosity and analytical skills. "
"Here are represented by different techniques, those scenes, landscapes and urban places, more or less known, that served as learning and personality shaped his art, buildings and streets of towns that are remnants of life of his beloved Lorca, Murcia Garrucha, "added Francisco Jodar.
The Mayor stressed that this exhibition, in addition to those organized and Yecla in Murcia, is "a trail full of memories and suggestions by the various stages of the life of this great painter, a travel diary that we make of the hand an artist that allows us to generously their extensive visual culture and creative experiences. "
Barberán Muñoz was honored as Favorite Son's Gold Medal and his hometown of Lorca.
He also received the third medal of the Salon d'Automne in Madrid (1964); Award Landscape Madrid "Madrid City Council (1965), Palma de Plata of the Biennial CASE Elche (Alicante) (1966), National Award of Villacis the Provincial de Murcia (1967), Laurel de Murcia, the Press Association (1967); VI Gold Medal of the CASE National Hall of Murcia (1968), Madrid City prize in National Exhibition of BB. AA.
(1968), First Prize in the national exhibition of Cieza (1968), and the prize "Chys" (1964 and 1968).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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