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Angel Hurtado

Angel Hurtado (Born 1927) is active/lives in Venezuela, France.  Angel Hurtado is known for Paint stained abstract images on canvas, inner landscapes, filmaking.

French tachisme* and art informel*, Angel Hurtado was notable for the improvisational handling of paint and staining of the canvas, and had a decisive impact on Venezuelan abstraction in the late 1950s. Hurtado spent his formative years as an artist in Paris. In 1962 he began a new series with the painting Sign in Space, which paired the gestural* approach of Tachisme with cosmic themes.

Hurtado created picto-graphic “signs in space” through the application of broad, heavy strokes in blacks, browns, and grays, and a dark celestial orb that hangs in the upper left, balanced by a burst of lighter strokes in the upper right. The immediacy of Hurtado’s brushstrokes not only make his process clear but also create a sense of internal movement, as though the forms are in the process of change or transmutation.

Hurtado saw these paintings as “inner landscapes” inspired by the “anxieties aroused by the barely known, the unsuspected, the unfamiliar, the utterly strange.” H   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3676 characters.]  Artist bio

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