‘In the Shadow of Dictatorship’ at Southern Methodist University's Meadows Museum offers a glorious account of an unlikely Spanish museum.
“Spanish abstract art was not a school,” says Clarisse Fava-Piz, the show’s curator. “Indeed, Spanish artists developed a variety of modes … from the expressive brushstrokes … to the hard lines of geometric abstraction.”
It all goes back to Fernando Zóbel, a debonair 30-something Spaniard who fled the real estate branch of a company founded by his great-grandfather in Manila to pursue a life of art in his country of origin. Before long, he had gathered a group of friends and like-minded artists, and together they opened the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art in Cuenca, about 100 miles east of Madrid.
José Guerrero's "Blue Intervals" is one of the loveliest paintings in the exhibition, evoking a book of matches. Fortunately, Zóbel was good at getting along with the bishops. He commissioned Manuel Hernández Mompó to produce a major piece called. This is a subtle, subdued creation. So is the work of Zóbel, who painted with a Japanese-influenced sense of space and a mystical sense of light.
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