Los disfraces

A beautifully produced, comprehensive look at Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez that traces her alluring and evocative paintings and sculpture from the 1950s to today Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926) often says, “Soy isla” (“I am an island”), expressing her desire for solitary, uncompromising practice. It also serves as a metaphor for her experience as an islander—connected to and disconnected from both the mainland and mainstream art currents, such as concretism, gestural abstraction, and minimalism. Characterized by reductive forms, clean lines, and sensuous curves suggestive of...

A contemporary of and collaborator with Van Gogh, Gaugin's art was highly influential in the 20th century. His studies of religious devotion and life on tropical islands remain some of the most moving -- and popular -- paintings to come out of the 19th century.

La autora de este trabajo complementario del de Javier Sánchez Cantón, reconstruye, con datos documentales, una personalidad desconocida que se había dado en torno a la figura de Antonio de Puga. Cuando tras el nombre de Antonio de Puga no había prácticamente nada, la autora averiguó su nacimiento en Ourense, su linaje, su presencia en Madrid, su estilo de vida, etc. Esta obra supone una valiosa aportación al conocimiento de uno de los pocos pintores gallegos del siglo de Velázquez, ligado por su trabajo al genial artista y a su círculo. El libro contiene como apéndices "Los libros...

The book is a selection of 112 works from approximately four hundred thousand works in the Pinacoteca, in various technique and disciplines by artists from the late 19th and 20th centuries who represent more than 100 years in the field of visual arts. Artists include: Pablo O'Higgins, Ignacio Martínez Tendon, Arturo Marty, Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Angel Zárraga among many others.