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Rafael Canogar

Rafael Canogar (Born 1935) is active/lives in Spain.  Rafael Canogar is known for Abstract monochromatic paintings, informalism.

Born 1935 in Toledo, Spain. Lives and works in Madrid.

After the Spanish Civil War and a period of transition, Rafael Canogar and his family took up residence in Madrid in 1944. He began his training with painter Daniel Vázquez Díaz, with whom he mastered a figurative language inspired by the work of Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró.

In 1954 Canogar began to experiment with abstraction and informalism, motivated by Michel Tapié’s call for a collective art phenomenon. His canvases, increasingly monochromatic, sought to achieve a balance between form and matter, between formal and informal painting. Within this trajectory he formed the group El Paso (1957–1960) alongside Luis Feito, Manolo Millares, Manuel Rivera and Antonio Saura among others, which ushered in a key phase in the modernization of the Spanish avant-garde.

ollowing a trip to the USA in the early 1960s, and a peak in his international recognition in 1964, Canogar abandoned informalism,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2719 characters.]  Artist bio

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