Word: chevaux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...full-time career in sculpture until he was past 50. He was trained as a decorative-metalworker. Iron is everywhere in Barcelona, foaming along the balconies, standing out in rigid black swags and spikes from the corners of 19th century buildings, lacing itself into intricate grilles and diapers and chevaux-de-frise: it is the bronze of Spain. The González family had been forging it for at least three generations. Julio González worked in the family firm; he went to art school and learned to draw, but at root he was thought of as a forjador...