Dibujos de Luis Paret y Alcázar (1746-1799)
Alejandro Martínez Pérez Alejandro Martínez PérezEditorial: CEEHISBN: 9788415245773
Sinopsis
Luis Paret y Alcázar (1746‒1799) is one of the most interesting figures on Spain’s eighteenth-century art scene. A scholarly artist who led an eventful life, even today he is denied his rightful place in the theoretical discourse of his period because of an epithet – the ‘Spanish Watteau’ – that labels him as the foremost representative of Rococo art in the country and influences our perception of him by narrowing our vision of the true extent of his work. He is likewise hailed as a painter specialised in views of harbours, flower paintings and courting scenes, though his training and background reveal that there is much more to him.
A few aesthetic judgements and historiographical criteria of the last century repeatedly compared his oeuvre with that of Francisco de Goya, seeking to contrast Paret’s scholarly nature with the Aragonese artist’s brilliant innate talent. This gave rise to an image of a ‘spontaneous and joyful’ artist who was ‘overly’ influenced by French taste. This study sets out to show, by analysing his artistic culture, that the Madrid-born Paret was fully in tune with the sociohistorical context of his time and to prove through his drawings that his supposed heterodoxy stems from the diversity of his artistic interests.
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