Antonio Bueno - Untitled

The human figure has always been at the center of artistic research. Since the Classical era, the naturalistic rendering of human anatomy has been a primary goal of painters and sculptors throughout history. The representation of the female figure is an expression of this aspiration, pervasive across all eras and stylistic trends. Indeed, in addition to the naturalistic interpretations of the Renaissance and various classicisms, which aimed for a truthful and detailed representation of the human body, the female figure has also been a central figure in the new aesthetic concepts brought by the historical avant-garde movements, such as Cubism, Expressionism, and Surrealism. The female figure is central to Antonio Bueno's research, of which he has created various versions, in his reflections on the exaltation of plastic values ​​and magical realism. In this case, her typical figures are inserted into a beautiful view of Florence, the adopted city of the Spanish-born artist.

This lithograph exemplifies the recurring style of the painter Antonio Bueno and his elaboration of the human figure. A constant in Antonio Bueno's work is the construction of the figure through rounded forms, with accentuated symmetry, as if generated by a rotational movement around a pivot. The facial features are generic but marked by a type of synthesis dictated by a conscious childishness that gives a naïve touch to his characters. Everything is always depicted with a lucid objectivity in which the rationality of the volumes is clearly enhanced, without any pictorial effect. Even the urban backdrop of Florence is treated with the same rationality of pure volumes. The description of the city clearly harks back to an ancient, medieval type of representation. Bueno, however, reworks this suggestion in his very contemporary exaltation of plastic values, offering a version perfectly in line with his aesthetic of magical realism.

Antonio Bueno was a Spanish-born painter born in Germany in 1918. He moved to Italy with his brother Xavier, another artist, in 1940, where he achieved great critical and public success, exhibiting at the Venice Biennale in 1984. He died in Fiesole that same year. His artistic language was characterized by various phases, from Impressionism to Verism, and finally to abstract experimentation. However, his work is best remembered for its rounded, plastic figures with childlike features.

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