Antonio Bueno - The Bullfighter

The human figure has always been at the center of artistic research. Since the classical age, the naturalistic rendering of human anatomy has been a primary objective of painters and sculptors throughout history. The representation of the human figure has permeated every era and stylistic movement. Indeed, in addition to the naturalistic interpretations of the Renaissance and various classicisms, which aimed at a truthful and detailed representation of the body, the human figure has also been a central theme in the new aesthetic concepts brought about by the historical avant-garde, such as Cubism, Expressionism, and Surrealism. The human figure is central to Antonio Bueno's research, of which he has offered various interpretations, in his reflection on the exaltation of plastic values ​​and magical realism.

This lithograph exemplifies the painter Antonio Bueno's recurring style 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 rotation 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. Thus, everything has a dry, deliberately illusory and playful character, in an aesthetic that falls within the canons of so-called "magical realism." The composition is also consistent with this type of approach, built on precise relationships of symmetry and balance.

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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