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Arte Abstracto o Arte Figurativo

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ABSTRACT VS FIGURATIVE At the end of the 19th century, many artists felt the need to create a new kind of art that would take on the fundamental changes that were taking place in technology, science and philosophy. The sources from which the individual artists took their theoretical arguments were diverse, reflecting intellectual and social concerns in all areas of Western culture at that time. Figurative art, figurativism or representational art is art that, unlike abstract art, is defined by the representation of figures, understood as objects identifiable by recognizable images; either by looking for verisimilitude (artistic realism), or by distorting them in some way: idealizing them (artistic idealism), intensifying some of its aspects (caricature, expressionism), or opting for one or another form of representation (archaism, symbolism, colossalism, hieraticism, detailism, preciosismo, feísmo, etc.) In the works of figurative art the represented model is recogni...

GABINO AMAYA CACHO

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Gabino Amaya Cacho Born on Avenida de los Toreros in Luis Díaz Cobe Street. He is a Spanish painter, who began painting from a small, art lover because his grandfather Gabino Amaya Guerrero was a well-known sculptor from Badajoz, Spain. Initially dedicated to Figurative Painting: portraits, landscapes, still lifes, nudes. He learned it from his grandfather's figurative sculpture. Gabino Amaya Cacho had the opportunity to paint about 400 paintings for Hungary, where he spent some time dedicated to this work thanks to a grant awarded by the Hungarian Government. Gabino had a large collection of Mannerist paintings, where he painted works such as Icarus and Daedalus, The Three Graces, The Bacchus Ages and Concerto for Venus. Currently the artist has developed a new stream that has called ABSTRACT PUNTILLISMO, an idea that has emerged from itself, without taking inspiration from any other painter. With this technique, the artist seeks to transfo...