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May 27, 2005 · A Lautrec-like watercolor of a woman in a rumpled bed shows his considerable skill and subtle touch as a draftsman, and small cast bronze figurative sculptures and reliefs reveal the influence...
May 27, 2002 · His gifts as a draftsman proved to be crucial. What he created on his own has come to be called drawing-in-space: open-form sculpture in which beautifully wrought, slender masses of metal...
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- Biography of Julio González
Despite Julio González's late start and short creative period of work, marked by poverty and war, he realized key works that capture his radical approach to sculpture. The strong ties to the local craft traditions in Barcelona informed his image of form and his choice of material with the formidable training and his acquired welding skills during W...
González chose iron as his metal of choice, because of his objection to its modern uses for munitions and for society's mechanized, scientific environment. He aimed to transform this metal into evo...González, inspired by Rodin, left visible the process of making, such as chasing the subject out of the metal, the marks of beating the metal into shape, or showing the skeletal elements used in we...Influenced by Picasso's revolutionizing attitude toward the dialogue between painting and sculpture, González began to depict forms in space in his own sculptural work. He therefore understood spac...Drawing provided González with the opportunity to try out his ideas and even occupy himself, when sculpting materials were scarce. They reveal his sense of color and the importance of light and sha...Childhood
González was born Julio González Pellicer in Barcelona to a family descended from a long line of metal smiths. As a child, he began learning decorative metal working in his father's workshop. His father, Concordio González, was a part-time sculptor, and his mother, Pilar Pellicer Fenés, came from a long line of well-known artists, her father having been an important 19thcentury Catalan illustrator and designer. As the youngest of four children, González was particularly close to his mother an...
Early Training and Work
As a teenager, González, along with Joan, took evening classes at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts. He was influenced by the Impressionists, often painting and sketching the female figure, and by Art Nouveau in his decorative metal work. The brothers also joined Circol Artist Sant Luc, an artistic society that advocated humility, Catholic morals in the arts, and the craft emphasis of guilds. Their uncle was the president of this society that included the prominent Catalan artists Joan Limona...
Mature Period
The late 1920s were a period of radical innovation in González's artistic practice. His friendship with Picasso had been renewed, when they ran into each other by chance. According to his daughter Roberta, "Picasso called out: 'Hey, we are not going to stay angry all of our life! Let's hug each other!'' The friendship became an artistic collaboration in 1928 when Picasso hired González for metalworking. Over the course of the next three years, González and Picasso worked together on six Cubis...
- Spanish
- September 21, 1876
- Barcelona, Spain
- March 27, 1942
Mar 27, 2022 · Gonzalez’s skill in direct-metal processes permitted Picasso’s collage sensibility to erupt within the three-dimensional world of sculpture. For Gonzalez the power of this eruption was, literally, earthshaking – the beginning of what he called “this new art: To draw in space.””
Picasso and Julio Gonzalez JOSEPHINE WITHERS In 1928, Pablo Picasso and Julio Gonzalez began working together on a series of assembled iron constructions which we now consider crucial to the development of modern sculpture. Picasso had not done any sculpture of importance for some 15 years, and Gonzalez had created no significant art at all.
May 30, 2024 · Picasso's influence on modern and contemporary art is hard to overstate. His contributions to the Cubist movement changed the way artists approached representation, and his willingness to experiment and break with tradition has inspired generations of artists.
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Sep 14, 2015 · The herky-jerky intermittence of Picasso’s involvement with sculpture might seem an obstacle to a reconsideration of his achievement, but it proves to be a boon. Each generation looks at...
