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Eduardo Vega Seoane
(Madrid, 1955)
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20th-21st Century Spanish
After experimenting with a variety of disciplines, including photography, cinema and theatre, a stay in Sweden, Denmark and Holland in 1976 led him to discover his vocation for painting, a calling that led him to enrol at Estudio Arjona to study Fine Arts (1977), furthering his studies later under the painter María Luisa Esteban. Later, his travels through several Asian countries also left a significant mark on his work. Since his first exhibition in 1985, Vega Seoane has taken part in countless shows, being distinguished with several prizes and his works are included in major public and private collections.
Largely ascribed to
Abstract Expressionism
This contemporary painting movement emerged within the field of abstraction in the 1940s in the United States, from where it spread worldwide. Rooted in similar premises and postulates as Surrealism, the Abstract Expressionist artists regarded the act of painting as a spontaneous and unconscious activity, a dynamic bodily action divested of any kind of prior planning. The works belonging to this movement are defined by the use of pure, vibrant primary colours that convey a profound sense of freedom. The movement’s main pioneers were, among others, Arshile Gorky (1904-1948) and Hans Hoffman (1880-1966). Leading Spanish exponents of the movement are Esteban Vicente (1903-2001) and José Guerrero (1914-1991), who lived for some time in New York City, where they were in first-hand contact with the many artistic innovations taking place there around that time.
, half-way between pure abstraction and figuration, his style of painting is defined by colour and expressive freedom in compositions created through large blotches of colour and energetic Eastern-influenced graphic marks, a legacy from his travels to the Far East in the 1970s.