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Modest Cuixart Tapies

Modest Cuixart Tapies (1925 - 2007) was active/lived in Spain.  Modest Cuixart Tapies is known for Abstract painting.

Cuixart initially studied medicine, but soon abandons his studies to devote himself to painting, and enters the Academia Libre de Pintura in Barcelona. In 1948 he participated in the founding of the group Dau al Set, along with Brossa, Ponç, Tàpies and Tharrats, among others. Concerned with the plastic value of the sign, his work has from the beginning a strong kinship with surrealism, as well as a great sensitivity to the expressive power of color. Towards 1955 he immersed himself in material informalism, which led him to use the "grattage" in works with a certain orientalist flavour. In 1959 he won first prize at the São Paulo Biennial and exhibited at the Documenta in Kassel, and the following year he took part in an exhibition of Spanish avant-garde art held at the Tate Gallery in London and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Cuixart introduces collage in his work in 1962, which will gradually lead him towards pop-art. Enriched by all these experiences, he returns again to flat pai   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3864 characters.]  Artist bio

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