BALTASAR LOBO
(Zamora, 1910 - París, 1993)
He started his artistic career in the Workshop of Art of Valladolid after having got the basic knowledge in the joiner's shop of his father. In 1927 he got a scholarship in the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando when he was studying in the School of Arts and Craftsmanship. As he was a republican by his conviction he took refuge in France after the civil war. He settled down in Paris, met Picasso who would become a decisive person in his posterior art, and started visiting the most important artistic and literary circles of the city. He became close to the critic of art Pierre Daix, made himself an assistant of Laurens, got acquainted with cubist painters like Léger, with surrealists, and writers like Pablo Neruda, Jorge Amado, etc.
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Feminine Nude |
In the forties the sculpture of Baltasar Lobo came out in small works in the form of a promised gift. Besides we should underline his important work when he was participating in the mural decoration of the Psychiatric Hospital of Sainte-Anne together with other Spanish and French artists among whom there was the Salmatian artist Celso Lagar.
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Motherhood |
His aesthetics as one of the representatives of the modern Spanish sculpture focuses on the abstract postulates although it never loses figuratives characteristics. His proximity to the surrealistic group has as a consequence the creation of works of organic and anthropomorphical character. He demonstrated an affection towards the feminine figure where forms and extremities are born and die which reminds the work of Moore and Brancusi. His favourite materials were on an early stage the mud after which he proceeded to the wood and finally he ends up working with ivory and metal.
The work of Baltasar Lobo begins to be exhibited in Switzerland, France, Spain, Germany, Luxemberg, etc. And he turns into one of the members of the School of Paris.
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