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Guillermo Pérez Villalta
(Tarifa, Cadiz, 1948)
Author's artworks
20th-21st Century Spanish
A self-taught artist, Pérez Villalta’s earliest vocation was Architecture. Even though in his earlier stages as an artist he leaned towards conceptualism and
Constructivism
an art and architecture movement born in 1914 in Russia which became known particularly after the October Revolution. The movement defends an active engagement of the artwork with its surrounding space. The term was first used by Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) in 1917 to contemptuously describe a work by Aleksander Rodchenko (1891-1956) and it did not have a positive connotation until the
Realist Manifesto
from 1920.
, his painting gradually shifted towards the language used by the generation of young figurative artists from the 1970s. He travelled to Paris and to Italy, where he was attracted by Neo-
Classicism
A movement in art, literature and music which advocated a return to the harmony, simplicity and balance that defined Classical Antiquity. In the arts, it emerged with the Renaissance, when it became the new aesthetic canon in the quest for perfection, and was the prevailing movement in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. With the appearance of
Romanticism
A cultural movement born in Germany and the United Kingdom in the late-eighteenth century, as a reaction against the Enlightenment. It extolled the expression of feelings and the search for personal freedom. It spread throughout Europe, with different manifestations depending on the country. In painting, Romanticism reached its peak in France between 1820 and 1850, replacing Neoclassicism. It main purpose was to oppose the strictures of academic painting, departing from the Classicist tradition grounded in a set of strict rules. Instead it advocated a more subjective and original style of painting. Its main formal features are the use of marked contrasts of light, the preponderance of colour over drawing and the use of impetuous and spontaneous brushwork to increase the dramatic effect. Its greatest exponents were: Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) in Germany; John Constable (1776-1837) and J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) in the UK; and Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) and Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) in France.
, it entered into decline until it gradually lost all traction with the advent of the early avant-gardes in the twentieth century.
and mythology, two influences that have stayed with him practically throughout his whole career. That notwithstanding, his work has a significant symbolic charge closely bound with a concern for the real and its representation.
His recent works are predicated on a natural and religious allegoric representation, underpinned by a formal simplicity and devoid of any anecdotal motifs, much closer to
Classicism
A movement in art, literature and music which advocated a return to the harmony, simplicity and balance that defined Classical Antiquity. In the arts, it emerged with the Renaissance, when it became the new aesthetic canon in the quest for perfection, and was the prevailing movement in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. With the appearance of
Romanticism
A cultural movement born in Germany and the United Kingdom in the late-eighteenth century, as a reaction against the Enlightenment. It extolled the expression of feelings and the search for personal freedom. It spread throughout Europe, with different manifestations depending on the country. In painting, Romanticism reached its peak in France between 1820 and 1850, replacing Neoclassicism. It main purpose was to oppose the strictures of academic painting, departing from the Classicist tradition grounded in a set of strict rules. Instead it advocated a more subjective and original style of painting. Its main formal features are the use of marked contrasts of light, the preponderance of colour over drawing and the use of impetuous and spontaneous brushwork to increase the dramatic effect. Its greatest exponents were: Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) in Germany; John Constable (1776-1837) and J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) in the UK; and Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) and Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) in France.
, it entered into decline until it gradually lost all traction with the advent of the early avant-gardes in the twentieth century.
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His first solo exhibition was held in 1972 at Galería Amadís in Madrid. In 1985 he won the National Visual Arts Prize.