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Oil on canvas. Hand-signed by the artist. // This commanding oil painting by Antoni Tàpies features his iconic Cruz Vermella — a bold red cross painted across the lower portion of a heavily textured grey canvas, punctuated by blue paint drips and white splashes that animate the sober surface. The square format of 140 by 140 centimetres intensifies the confrontational symmetry of the cross motif. The work exemplifies Tàpies’s Art Informel investigations into materiality, sign, and spiritual resonance, where rough surfaces and elementary symbols merge Catalan cultural identity with a universal language of suffering and transcendence.
Cruz Vermella, 1960s
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Oil on canvas. Hand-signed by the artist. // This commanding oil painting by Antoni Tàpies features his iconic Cruz Vermella — a bold red cross painted across the lower portion of a heavily textured grey canvas, punctuated by blue paint drips and white splashes that animate the sober surface. The square format of 140 by 140 centimetres intensifies the confrontational symmetry of the cross motif. The work exemplifies Tàpies’s Art Informel investigations into materiality, sign, and spiritual resonance, where rough surfaces and elementary symbols merge Catalan cultural identity with a universal language of suffering and transcendence.
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Antoni Tapies
Primer Congreso Nacional De Neuropedriatria, 1982
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EUR 1,875
What is abstract art?
Abstract art uses form, shape, line, and color to create a visual experience without attempting to represent external reality. The composition exists independently of the world's visual references, focusing on expressing ideas and emotions through non-representational means.
