Self-Portrait by Antonio Saura

Abstract

56 WLT NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2015© artists rights society ( ARS ), new york cover feature art poetry Three notes 1. Paris, 1955 Speaking like St. John of the Cross, it is understood that the solitary painter must meet five conditions: soar to the greatest heights; acquaint himself with silence; fix his eyes on the infinite; and not hoard a single color. The fifth: to cry out in sympathy inside an unoccupied language. 2. Cuenca, 1957 To plunge into the demonic. Goya, Van Gogh, Picasso. Into the angelic, Vermeer, Zubarán, Rothko. To leave contradictions unresolved. Duchamp. To self-destruct till death. Pollock, De Staël, James Dean. To drown in the fatalism of the need for existence. To notice that, truly, one lives. 3. Madrid, 1959 To whatever might fill a white surface, being obsessive, elemental, flowing like a continuous organic river. So as to not lose footing, to not end up a suicide. A body, an object, or a landscape might turn into a constant wellspring, as long as they weren’t more than this. Through warm-blooded support I will happily achieve the fulfillment of an action. We are already the testimony of an era, but it is necessary to go beyond. above Antonio Saura, Dame en technicolor, 1957, mixed media and collage on paper, 70 x 49cm. Prizewinning Argentine poet Mario Arteca (b. 1960, La Plata) is the author of more than twenty books of poetry. He is seen as a key member of Argentina’s Generación de los 90 together with such poets as Washington Cucurto and Aníbal Cristobo. He co-founded Ediciones el Broche in 1999. Antonio Saura (1930–1998) was a Spanish artist and writer known for his shifting styles. He founded the group “El Paso”in 1957. Self-Portrait by Antonio Saura by Mario Arteca ...