Pedro Coronel

(Zacatecas, 1922 - Mexico City, 1985)

Mexico

1982

oil on canvas

122 x 121 cm

Inv. no. CCB059

BBVA Collection Mexico



With the propitious tile of Mexico, this splendid painting contains formal echoes of pre-Columbian sculpture and a certain Picassian syntax. The robust impastos invigorating the volumes add to a palette that conveys the joy of Mexican arts and festivals with dashes of pink, fuchsia, cherry and orange, to some extent borrowed from the chromatic splendour of Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991).

With those masses in a primordial state, mutually gravitating in a formidable chromatic intercourse, Pedro Coronel brings us an image of extreme visual opulence. The superb textures rendered on the canvas, both ancient and contemporary, submit to the artist’s overwhelming creative energy. The exuberant use of colour differentiates Coronel within Mexico’s
.