DANIEL VÁZQUEZ DÍAZ (Nerva, Huelva, 1882 - Madrid, 1969). "Corner of my house". Oil on canvas.

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  DANIEL VÁZQUEZ DÍAZ (Nerva, Huelva, 1882 - Madrid, 1969). "Corner of my house". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner. Measurements: 51 x 53 cm; 69 x 71 cm (frame). In this work Daniel Vázquez Díaz demonstrates his absolute mastery of the technique and the capture of the landscape, in an image of his house in which he manages to synthesize the naturalistic expression, the personal expression and the pictorial order. We see a sensitive brushstroke, which explores the space and gives it form and entity, creating volumes, lights and shadows, defining an atmosphere captured with great sensitivity. Through a purely personal language, Vázquez Díaz synthesizes the basic elements of representation and expressiveness of painting, as can be seen in the intensity of his colors or in the rigor of his compositional structure. Daniel Vázquez Díaz began painting in his student years, after discovering the work of Zurbarán and El Greco. In 1903 he moved to Madrid to focus on painting and copying the masters of the Prado, and there he became friends with Juan Gris, Solana and Dario de Regoyos. Three years later he settled in Paris, where he worked with the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle and met Picasso, Braque, Modigliani and Max Jacob, among others, and assimilated a certain avant-garde spirit. During these years he began to develop his personal style, which mixed the constructive brushstrokes of Cézanne with the geometric structure and planes of cubism. Upon his return to Spain in 1918, he began teaching, first in his studio and later at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts, where he obtained the chair of mural painting in 1932. Through his classes, Vázquez Díaz will spread a cubism of architectural monumentality, and that serves as a bridge to the young artists with the trends that were developing in the rest of Europe. In addition to being an excellent landscape painter, Vázquez Díaz stood out as an illustrator and portraitist of some of the most important figures of his time. Among his mural works, it is worth mentioning those made for the monastery of La Rábida in Huelva, between 1927 and 1930, which consecrated him as a painter. In 1968, a year before his death, he was appointed member of the Academy of San Fernando. He is currently represented in the Reina Sofía National Museum, the museum that bears his name in Nerva, the Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, the Telefónica Foundation and the Fine Arts Museums of Bilbao and Seville, among others.
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