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C:Brief CURRICULUM of MADRAZO-TAUDIJosé Luis Madrazo Gastaudi, 14 March 1952, Aranda de Duero (Burgos). In 1956 he moved to Zaragoza; While studying high school he attended the School of Applied Arts and OO.AA., where he spent most of his time drawing, modeling and painting, and in the Library studying art books, interested in the latest trends, abstraction, European informalism, American painting, etc., in general avant-garde art. At the beginning, he reflects on the art of the 50s and 60s, following mainly the tendencies of Abstract Expressionism and the so-called New York School, (Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Gorky, Guston, Rothko, Hamilton, etc.), and the reaction of Pop Art (Wharol, Rosenquist, Robert Rauschenberg, Wesselmann, Jasper Johns, etc.) characterized by the use of images and themes taken from consumer society. In 1971 he moved to Barcelona, where he continued his training at the San Jorge School of Fine Arts, making abstract painting adding shapes and figurative objects, approaching the surrealist sphere, it would be called lyrical abstraction, a term that Daniel Giralt Miracle attributed to the painting of Antoni Clavé, abstraction with figurative references, based on improvisation. intuition and spontaneity. For a long period of time he made drawings with Indian ink, pencil, pen, etc., (mixed media); By using oil painting, painting becomes more abstract, with greater freedom of execution, more gestural, deep and expressive, maintaining at its base the introspective thought of the drawings, the search for fascination, suggestion, inspiration, the simulation of connecting with the observer – "The work must have enough strength on its own not to leave the viewer indifferent" – proposing different developments for its interpretation, giving the subconscious the opportunity to travel.In 1979, in a brief but very productive course with Professor Badía of the Massana School in Barcelona, he learned the basic principles of etching in the "old way" (nitric acid, drypoint, copper plates, zinc, etc.) and entered that suggestive world, studying the techniques of the classics (Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya) and a long list of modern authors (Picasso, Miró, Clavé, etc.)In 1986 he moved to Seville and at that University, completing his theoretical training, he obtained a degree in Geography and History (History of Art).In July 2005 he attended an engraving course at the Antonio Saura workshop in Fuendetodos, Zaragoza, and began a period of abstract engravings, moving away from all figuration and placing more emphasis on composition, stain, texture, depth of relief, double and triple printing. In his own way, he invented the Monotype, a single print, a unique and original work that was more expressive and gestural. He currently uses acrylic paint and larger format canvases; The "visual language" is surrealism close to abstract expressionism, with large doses of irony and sarcasm, sometimes objects and figurative elements appear as entities that suggest free interpretation. It can be said that, being an informal painting at its core, it is not necessarily exempt from orthodox technique, stimulated by poetry, music, readings, places, etc., which expand the space of thought, the intellectual and emotional charge.
