Gargallo brings together here a good part of his most significant previous achievements in terms of expressive concepts and plastic language, the result of the research he carried out throughout his life in the field of the two characteristic tendencies of his work, perhaps as a demonstration that all the Past art can be seen with new, respectful but demystifying eyes, contributing to the historical heritage his own personal capacity for representation, the ideology and feelings of the author's historical moment, as Gargallo wanted.
The small male figure reclining on the horse's croup is represented with flaunting and variety of resources, so that the curls of the hair refer to classical antiquity, the left arm and the right leg are represented according to classical figuration, the right forearm and the belly have been modeled in negative and, in the head, the abdomen and the left leg, it incorporates total emptiness, also implanted with resounding efficiency in the body.
Title: Uranus
Author: Pablo Gargallo
Date: 1933
Technique: Bronze
Displayed in: Pablo Gargallo Museum
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