With his traditionalist approach to artwork, he generally used oil on canvas, or pencil, ink, gouache or charcoal on paper. Landscapes and nature are common features throughout Joan Hernández Pijuan’s works. Although he refused to be called an
abstract artist – or an artist for that matter – his landscapes are unmistakably abstract.
« I came to abstraction and formal painting fairly late and very slowly – I would say that it was by a process of elimination and expansion. »
Joan Hernandez Pijuan
His later works’ chromatism is reduced to black, white, green or ochre, and every detail is necessary. In the mid 1950s, Joan Hernández Pijuan co-founded the Silex Group, a group dedicated to exploring the connection between
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With his traditionalist approach to artwork, he generally used oil on canvas, or pencil, ink, gouache or charcoal on paper. Landscapes and nature are common features throughout Joan Hernández Pijuan’s works. Although he refused to be called an
abstract artist – or an artist for that matter – his landscapes are unmistakably abstract.
« I came to abstraction and formal painting fairly late and very slowly – I would say that it was by a process of elimination and expansion. »
Joan Hernandez Pijuan
His later works’ chromatism is reduced to black, white, green or ochre, and every detail is necessary. In the mid 1950s, Joan Hernández Pijuan co-founded the Silex Group, a group dedicated to exploring the connection between
contemporary art and primitive convention. He became dean of the Department of Fine Arts University of Barcelona in 1992, and died in Barcelona at the age of seventy-four. Retrospectives have been held at the National Centre de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain, and the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, Russia. (
Artist website)
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