1994 Mompó Avant-garde Colors Large Poster Art Exhibition

This El Color de las Vanguardias poster announces Pintura Española Contemporánea 1950–1990 en la Colección Argentaria at Museo de Bellas Artes, Santander, from 1 to 31 July 1994. The existing listing identifies the reproduced image with Mompó. It is a collective-exhibition poster, not evidence of a Mompó solo show or an original painting.

Poster details, condition and edition

48 × 65.8 cm / 18.89 × 25.90 in. Vintage condition rated 7/10. Frame not included. Printing technique, edition size and handwritten signature are not documented.

About the artist

Mompó studied at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts (1943-1948), obtained a scholarship for the Granada Painters' Residence, and exhibited in 1951 at the historic Mateu Gallery in Valencia, a beacon of modernity in the stifling Francoist environment. Shortly afterwards, in 1954, he visited Paris, then settled at the Spanish Academy in Rome and traveled to Holland, where he was particularly influenced by the Cobra Group. Unlike them, Mompó always maintained a certain poetic fidelity to his Mediterranean origins, characterized in particular by chromatic sensitivity and a certain playful vivacity. Over time, he found his own voice, which emerged from writing, signs, and color, forming a series of increasingly light and subtle constellations; more elemental, in short. In 1968, he participated in the Venice Biennale, where he won the UNESCO Prize. In 1984, he was awarded the National Prize for Plastic Arts and in 1992, posthumously, the Spanish Ministry of Culture awarded him the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts. ( thanks to IVAM.es )

Colors and interior styling

Pale pink and cream provide space for turquoise, sky blue, red, orange, yellow and muted green-gray shapes. It could bring light color to a Scandinavian-inspired living room with oak and cream upholstery, or a playful creative workspace with one turquoise accessory. A pale wood frame would keep the composition airy.

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