Tropic or Trópico is a 1945 painting by Spanish artist Josep Renau. Renau executed the painting during his exile in México, while he collaborated with Mexican muralist painters such as David Alfaro Siqueiros. The painting represents a landscape, probably a Mexican natural space. Three vultures surround a fish skeleton on the lower right side of an uninhabited landscape. The scene evokes the desolation and destruction of humankind provoked by the wars of the 20th century, in the precise year of the end of World War II, which left a death toll of 60 million people.
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| - Tropic és un quadre de 1945 de l'artista valencià Josep Renau i Berenguer, feta durant el seu exili a Mèxic, mentre col·laborava amb pintors muralistes mexicans com David Alfaro Siqueiros. La pintura representa un paisatge, probablement un espai natural mexicà. Tres voltors envolten un esquelet de peix a la part inferior dreta d’un paisatge deshabitat. L'escena evoca la desolació i la destrucció de la humanitat provocada per les guerres del segle XX. (ca)
- Tropic or Trópico is a 1945 painting by Spanish artist Josep Renau. Renau executed the painting during his exile in México, while he collaborated with Mexican muralist painters such as David Alfaro Siqueiros. The painting represents a landscape, probably a Mexican natural space. Three vultures surround a fish skeleton on the lower right side of an uninhabited landscape. The scene evokes the desolation and destruction of humankind provoked by the wars of the 20th century, in the precise year of the end of World War II, which left a death toll of 60 million people. (en)
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| - Tropic és un quadre de 1945 de l'artista valencià Josep Renau i Berenguer, feta durant el seu exili a Mèxic, mentre col·laborava amb pintors muralistes mexicans com David Alfaro Siqueiros. La pintura representa un paisatge, probablement un espai natural mexicà. Tres voltors envolten un esquelet de peix a la part inferior dreta d’un paisatge deshabitat. L'escena evoca la desolació i la destrucció de la humanitat provocada per les guerres del segle XX. Tropic és la resposta personal de Renau al dol i el dol provocats per la Guerra Civil espanyola i la Segona Guerra Mundial. La pintura és una de les obres més importants i influents de l'artista. Renau representa un paisatge amb els mitjans plàstics de l', un grup de pintors espanyols moderns que persegueixen la representació de la topografia castellana com una terra despietada. Tant aquesta referència a l’art espanyol dels anys 30 com els voltors que mengen carronya com a al·legoria de les guerres modernes donen a aquesta pintura un profund sentit de la malenconia i la tragèdia. En aquest treball, Renau avança la presència de calaveres que Pablo Picasso va utilitzar recurrentment després del 1945 per expressar el trauma de la Segona Guerra Mundial i la seva experiència al París de l’ocupació alemanya. (ca)
- Tropic or Trópico is a 1945 painting by Spanish artist Josep Renau. Renau executed the painting during his exile in México, while he collaborated with Mexican muralist painters such as David Alfaro Siqueiros. The painting represents a landscape, probably a Mexican natural space. Three vultures surround a fish skeleton on the lower right side of an uninhabited landscape. The scene evokes the desolation and destruction of humankind provoked by the wars of the 20th century, in the precise year of the end of World War II, which left a death toll of 60 million people. Tropic is Renau's personal response to the grief and mourning provoked by the Spanish Civil War and World War II. The painting is one of the most important and influential works by the artist. Renau depicts a landscape with the plastic means of the Escuela de Vallecas, a group of modern Spanish painters pursuing the representation of the Castilian topography as a ruthless land. Both this reference to the Spanish art of the 1930s and the vultures eating carrion as an allegory of modern wars give this painting a deep sense of melancholy and tragedy. In this work, Renau advances the presence of skulls that Picasso used recurrently after 1945 to express the trauma of World War II and his experience in the Paris of the German Occupation. Renau reacts to the trauma of war with angular shapes and expressionistic brushstrokes that remain close to the language of Picasso's Guernica and Joan Miró's The Reaper, two large-format paintings conceived for the Spanish Pavilion in the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (Paris International Exposition) in the 1937 World's Fair in Paris. Renau played a crucial role in the gestation of the Spanish Pavilion; he was responsible for Picasso's participation and executed a series of photomurals that covered the exterior of the building designed by Josep Lluis Sert and Luis Lacasa. (en)
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