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==Biography== |
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===Early life=== |
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González was born in [[Jerez de la Frontera]], Spain on December 22, 1899 to a middle-class family. His father, Diego González Lozano, owned a photography studio and taught his son photography. At age nine, González's mother died and his father spent less time with him.<ref>{{cite web |title=Carlos González Ragel |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/59246/carlos-gonzalez-ragel |website=dbe.rah.es |access-date=18 November 2024}}</ref> González attended the College of the [[Society of Mary (Marianists)|Marianists]], but dropped out due to conflicts with teachers. |
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At age 16, González and his brother Diego moved to [[Madrid]]. González enrolled in the School of Arts and Crafts, but did not finish his studies there. It was reported because his style of painting was not acceptable at the school. González returned to Jerez to work with his father and his brother Javier in the photography studio. |
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===Career=== |
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Born in Jerez de la Fronter on December 22, 1899 in the midst of a middle-class family. His mother had great artistic sensibility conveyed to him and their father, Diego González Lozano, owner of a famous study, initiated him into the art of photography. |
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| ⚫ | González created a form of pictorial expression that he called "Esqueletomaquia". He defined that as "... the art of seeing beyond what reach our eyes." He sees living things as they are in their transitional passage on earth, but as they will take some time after buried or enclosed in a niche. It's death, in his representation of skeleton pruning. Moreover, by virtue of his strange and peculiar vision, skulls or [[skeleton]]s of their "victims" have a strong [[Physiognomy|physiognomic]] resemblance and body. It is recognized immediately. |
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For their studies of the human body, used, no doubt, of the films included in the work of [[Andreas Vesalius]]' ''De Humani Fabrica Corporis'' published in 1543 and which had an issue. heir skeletons represent the destination to death with a black sense of humor of its author as well as analyzing expression of a society. Rachel laughs at death and it makes her smile and harmless. His creations do not inspire terror or darken thoughts. Their dead are funny people, jocund, who have not learned yet that they no longer live or still "good health". [[Pablo Picasso]] admired his painting was an attempt to represent life and death of critically and poignant true to his nature. |
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At nine years old his mother died and he scored such a tragedy for the rest of his life, especially when his father, devoted entirely to his work, he devoted little attention. |
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González staged six exhibitions. He opened the first on February 16, 1931 with figures as skeletons in the [[Museum of Modern Art]]. The exhibition emphasized [[drawing]]s and [[caricature]]s, from politicians to ordinary people. After González closed his photography studio, he spent his time painting, with periods of high production and others of inactivity. Jose Franco said in an article published in ''World Chart'' in 1931 that González works are full of "satirical prints" with which the author makes a critical social and human aspects of the time using "metamorphosis and deformation reality." |
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From small stand with the brush skills, talent, her mother and significant others fostered in the child, restless and rebellious. This behavior would result in him having to leave the College of the Marianists by problems with the teachers. |
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In 1936, González, suffering from [[alcoholism]], first entered the Psychiatric Hospital of [[Málaga|Malaga]]. After leaving the hospital, he and his wife Amalia went to [[Seville]]. However, his condition deteriorated again and he was admitted to the [[Psychiatric hospital|Psychiatric Hospital]] in Seville. |
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With sixteen years with his brother Diego, go to Madrid to seek horizons to their concerns, making contact with the bohemian world in which fatally plunges that drag and various diseases, a result of this haphazard way of life, which marked its life. Probably dates from this time the beginning of heavy drinking. |
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| ⚫ | In 1937 González held his third exhibition in Seville, exhibiting esqueleotomaquias of celebrities and politicians. Back in Jerez lives in a house on the road cutting to the christening as Villa Esqueletomáquia. In this house lives with great hardship and in which it said was missing anything. There was no lack of truth and the phone, ham, cheese and the maid were painted on the wall. |
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Jerez returns to his father's death, enrolling in the School of Arts and Crafts, but did not finish his studies mainly because his style of painting did not fit the scholarship of the institution. |
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| ⚫ | In 1941 the hotel celebrated its fourth exhibition Swan with pictures similar to that of Seville, and in 1942 set out in the [[The Westin Palace Madrid|Hotel Palace]] in Madrid. From that date onwards his painting became darker, with translation of states of suffering and nightmares, similar to what happened to Goya. |
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Work with great success in the photography studio of his father who was with his brother Javier, leading to master the technique so that, according to some in this area reached higher levels than in the painter, who is why today is almost exclusively known. |
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===Later life=== |
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In 1955 González held his last exhibition at the [[Swan Hotel, Bradford-on-Avon|Swan Hotel]]. He was soon admitted to the [[sanatorium]] of St. John of God in [[Ciempozuelos]], where he spent the rest of his life. González continued to draw and paint. He created esqueletomaquias of [[Don Quixote]], [[Francisco Goya|Goya]], [[Vincent van Gogh|and Van Gogh]]. |
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For their studies of the human body, used, no doubt, of the films included in the work of Andreas Vesalius' De Humani Fabrica Corporis "published in 1543 and which had an issue. |
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heir skeletons represent the destination to death with a black sense of humor of its author as well as analyzing expression of a society. Rachel laughs at death and it makes her smile and harmless. |
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His creations do not inspire terror or darken thoughts. Their dead are funny people, jocund, who have not learned yet that they no longer live or still "good health". |
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Pablo Picasso admired his painting was an attempt to represent life and death of critically and poignant true to his nature. |
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On November 28, 1969 González died.<ref>{{cite web |last1=RODRÍGUEZ |first1=MERCEDES DÍAZ |title=CARLOS GONZÁLEZ RAGEL: EXPRESIONISMO DE PRINCIPIOS DE SIGLO XX |url=https://institucional.us.es/revistas/arte/20/24%20Diaz.pdf |page=404|website=institucional.us.es |access-date=18 November 2024}}</ref> |
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Throughout his life made six exhibitions, opened the first on February 16, 1931 with figures as skeletons in the Museum of Modern Art. |
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===Legacy=== |
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At this early stage the artist combines his artistic qualities and pictorial photography, emphasizing in this field for his drawings and caricatures of characters of all kinds, from politicians to local scenes and. |
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From December 2007 to March 2008 an exhibition entitled The Spanish Night was held at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía Modern Art. They were displayed in the Flamenco, avant-garde and popular culture 1865-1939.<ref>{{cite web |title=La noche española. Flamenco, vanguardia y cultura popular 1865-1936 {{!}} Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía |url=https://www.museoreinasofia.es/exposiciones/noche-espanola-flamenco-vanguardia-cultura-popular-1865-1936 |website=www.museoreinasofia.es |access-date=18 November 2024 |language=es}}</ref> Twelve of his works were displayed. |
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==References== |
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After the demise of photography studio is devoted entirely to painting, though in a disorderly and chaotic, with alternating periods of high production with others of inactivity. |
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His figure thin and elegant, with his black cape with silver skulls closures, it is famous Jerez society, which is often an easy way to meet its already declared alcoholism, in return for which insurance offered entertainment with its ironic and satirical verbiage. |
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Jose Franco said in an article published in World Chart in 1931 that Rachel Gonzalez works are full of "satirical prints" with which the author makes a critical social and human aspects of the time using "metamorphosis and deformation reality. " |
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The alcohol was taking its toll on him so that, apart from the obvious harm to their physical health, it was becoming a person with aggressive shoots indiscriminately into its surroundings. |
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In the year 1936 is entered for the first time at the Psychiatric Hospital of Malaga. After leaving travels to Seville with Amalia, his wife, which worsens their physical and mental, having to be re-admitted to the Psychiatric Hospital in Seville. |
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In 1937 on his third exhibition in Seville, exposing esqueleotomaquias of celebrities and politicians of the time. |
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From that date onwards his painting is becoming darker, with translation of states of suffering and nightmares, similar to what happened to Goya. |
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In 1955 he celebrated his last exhibition in artist's life, also in the Swan Hotel. |
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In 1956, fifty-seven years, must be admitted to the sanatorium of St. John of God in Ciempozuelos, where the artist spends the rest of their days so beloved and respected by an extensive body of paintings that make up a certain part existing permanent exhibition at the institution. Perhaps his happiest years were spent in the sanatorium, where he felt loved and admired-everyone called him Don Carlos, well controlled and care. |
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This last period of his life was very productive for the artist using the pen and the oil in his works and repeating it for very specific topics obsessively, like esqueletomaquias D. Quixote, the figure of Goya, Van Gogh esqueletomaquias, religious reasons as the "Christ of fools" and emphasizing the interpretations pictorial greatly blades Rorschach test. |
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On November 28, 1969 died after progressive mental and physical deterioration has been suffering, sequelae of diseases acquired in his youth. |
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In May 2007 saw the last show for now, Carlos Gonzalez Rachel in Vitoria. |
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From December 2007 to March 2008 will be held at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia Modern Art, an exhibition entitled The Spanish night. Flamenco, avant-garde and popular culture 1865-1939, which will be displayed next to paintings by the greatest artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a dozen works of this painter. |
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Carlos González Ragel (December 22, 1899 - November 28, 1969) was a Spanish painter and photographer.
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]González was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain on December 22, 1899 to a middle-class family. His father, Diego González Lozano, owned a photography studio and taught his son photography. At age nine, González's mother died and his father spent less time with him.[1] González attended the College of the Marianists, but dropped out due to conflicts with teachers.
At age 16, González and his brother Diego moved to Madrid. González enrolled in the School of Arts and Crafts, but did not finish his studies there. It was reported because his style of painting was not acceptable at the school. González returned to Jerez to work with his father and his brother Javier in the photography studio.
Career
[edit]González created a form of pictorial expression that he called "Esqueletomaquia". He defined that as "... the art of seeing beyond what reach our eyes." He sees living things as they are in their transitional passage on earth, but as they will take some time after buried or enclosed in a niche. It's death, in his representation of skeleton pruning. Moreover, by virtue of his strange and peculiar vision, skulls or skeletons of their "victims" have a strong physiognomic resemblance and body. It is recognized immediately.
For their studies of the human body, used, no doubt, of the films included in the work of Andreas Vesalius' De Humani Fabrica Corporis published in 1543 and which had an issue. heir skeletons represent the destination to death with a black sense of humor of its author as well as analyzing expression of a society. Rachel laughs at death and it makes her smile and harmless. His creations do not inspire terror or darken thoughts. Their dead are funny people, jocund, who have not learned yet that they no longer live or still "good health". Pablo Picasso admired his painting was an attempt to represent life and death of critically and poignant true to his nature.
González staged six exhibitions. He opened the first on February 16, 1931 with figures as skeletons in the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition emphasized drawings and caricatures, from politicians to ordinary people. After González closed his photography studio, he spent his time painting, with periods of high production and others of inactivity. Jose Franco said in an article published in World Chart in 1931 that González works are full of "satirical prints" with which the author makes a critical social and human aspects of the time using "metamorphosis and deformation reality."
In 1936, González, suffering from alcoholism, first entered the Psychiatric Hospital of Malaga. After leaving the hospital, he and his wife Amalia went to Seville. However, his condition deteriorated again and he was admitted to the Psychiatric Hospital in Seville.
In 1937 González held his third exhibition in Seville, exhibiting esqueleotomaquias of celebrities and politicians. Back in Jerez lives in a house on the road cutting to the christening as Villa Esqueletomáquia. In this house lives with great hardship and in which it said was missing anything. There was no lack of truth and the phone, ham, cheese and the maid were painted on the wall.
In 1941 the hotel celebrated its fourth exhibition Swan with pictures similar to that of Seville, and in 1942 set out in the Hotel Palace in Madrid. From that date onwards his painting became darker, with translation of states of suffering and nightmares, similar to what happened to Goya.
Later life
[edit]In 1955 González held his last exhibition at the Swan Hotel. He was soon admitted to the sanatorium of St. John of God in Ciempozuelos, where he spent the rest of his life. González continued to draw and paint. He created esqueletomaquias of Don Quixote, Goya, and Van Gogh.
On November 28, 1969 González died.[2]
Legacy
[edit]From December 2007 to March 2008 an exhibition entitled The Spanish Night was held at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía Modern Art. They were displayed in the Flamenco, avant-garde and popular culture 1865-1939.[3] Twelve of his works were displayed.
References
[edit]- ^ "Carlos González Ragel". dbe.rah.es. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
- ^ RODRÍGUEZ, MERCEDES DÍAZ. "CARLOS GONZÁLEZ RAGEL: EXPRESIONISMO DE PRINCIPIOS DE SIGLO XX" (PDF). institucional.us.es. p. 404. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
- ^ "La noche española. Flamenco, vanguardia y cultura popular 1865-1936 | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía". www.museoreinasofia.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 November 2024.