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Julio GonzálezWW-1939-125471

1939·Pen and black ink and white chalk, over graphite, on buff wove paper·30.8 × 20.8 cm (12 3/16 × 8 1/4 in.)

<p>This sketch for one of the artist’s iron-welded forms conveys Gonzalez’s increasing fear and anxiety in response to the Spanish Civil War, a concern he shared with his countrymen Picasso and Miró, both of whom devoted much of their art in the 1930s to the subject.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1939
Medium: Pen and black ink and white chalk, over graphite, on buff wove paper
Dimensions: 30.8 × 20.8 cm (12 3/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Julio González

Artist

Julio González

Sculpture

Julio González’s work shirks the label of any art historical movement, synthesizing the two supposedly opposing styles of Constructivism and Surrealism. He pioneered a style of sculpture in which volume is suggested through openness and by the interplay between linear forms; His figures and the space within which they exist become inseparable. This practice would come to characterize the unique sculptural language that González termed “drawing in space”.

Barcelona, Spain

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