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Corridas
 1997


                                                        This small suite of paintings, pastels and small paintings on panel represent a attempt to portray the essential dynamism
                                                                      
the bullfight.  I wanted to depict the black mass of the bull and the swirling colours of the matador as an abstract interchange
                                                                       of dynamic energies.
  I saw two bullfights, one in Madrid in 1958 and one in Portugal in 1971. In the Portugese contest, they
                                                                       try to leap over the animal's horns, wherein we see an echo of the bull
vaulting ritual of ancient Minoan Crete and even further
                                                                       back to the cult
of the bull in Aurignacian cave art. These memories were stimulated again after seeing the posters for bullfights
                                                                       in southern France and also the many works
of Picasso
where  he regularly used the corrida as a subject.


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