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This
small suite of paintings, pastels and small paintings on panel
represent
a attempt to portray the essential dynamism of the bullfight. The
artist
wanted to depict the black mass of the bull and the swirling colours of
the matador as an abstract interchange of energies.
The
artist, who saw two bullfights, one in Spain in 1958 and one in
Portugal in 1971, relates how in the Portugese
contest, where they try to leap over the animal's horns, we see an echo
of the
bull-leaping of ancient Minoan Crete and even further back to the cult
of the bull in Aurignacian cave art.
These memories were stimulated again seeing the posters for bullfights
in southern France and also seeing many works by Picasso where he used
the corrida as a subject.
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Last updated: Octpber 4, 2007
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