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Zobel is best known for his series of paintings "Diaolgos," "conversations" with artists such as Rembrant or Lorenzo Lotto. His work is often associated with the informalist movement, which developed after the fall of the Spanish Republic and is especially color-sensitive...
Painterly Walls. The art inside is abstract, brutal and sober. Spanish artists prefer to call their work "informalist." Zobel inveighs against the impression that Spanish painting is "exaggeratedly tragic, a lot of King Kong beating on the chest." Says he: "There is Spanish restraint, absolute control of material, unsentimental romanticism, if you like, but none of this Germanic flopping around the deck with tears streaming...
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