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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.
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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