
handle: 10261/90126
[EN] Josep Renau and the restoration of a committed beauty.- Besides the question about the link between beauty and commitment, the paper analyses and proposes the restoration of both the existential and creative trajectory of Josep Renau (Valencia, 1907-Berlin, 1982), as one of the greatest Spanish modern painters without any doubt, but also a most singular, versatile and committed one. He was dedicated to painting, muralist painting, illustration, graphics and posters design or photomontage. His very intense development, in a sort of progression in relation to both socio-cultural commitment and artistic renovation, went through artistic and cultural stages of three significant countries binding his life, creativity and pilgrimage: Spain, Mexico and the former German Democratic Republic. Nevertheless, this commitment, so previously linked to his creative development, was simultaneously changing and varying from the impetuous commitment to the Spanish stage, to an endogen commitment of Mexican character and finally to the hexogen German stage, thus becoming from the seventies a functional implication adapted to the social requirement. At any rate, under such conditionings and during his development, he generated a kind of contingent or complex beauty –which we have called “committed beauty”-, the recovery of which must be undertaken while we also restore the figure of the artist himself.
[ES] Junto a la pregunta por el vínculo de la belleza y el compromiso, se analiza y propone la recuperación conjunta de la trayectoria vivencial y creativa de Josep Renau (Valencia 1907-Berlín 1982), sin duda uno de los grandes creadores del arte español contemporáneo, pero también uno de sus artistas más singulares, polifacéticos y comprometidos. Dedicado a la pintura, el muralismo, la ilustración, el diseño gráfico, el cartel o el fotomontaje, su intensa evolución pasó, en una suerte de progresión respecto al compromiso socio-cultural y la renovación artística, por los ámbitos artístico-culturales de tres significativos países que fue enlazando su vida, su creatividad y su peregrinaje: España, México y la otrora República Democrática Alemana. Pero este compromiso, tan ligado a su evolución creativa, también progresó y varió, de modo que del compromiso impetuoso de la etapa española, pasó al compromiso de carácter endógeno de la mexicana y el exógeno de la alemana, transformándose desde los años setenta en una implicación funcional y adaptada al requerimiento social. Bajo tales condicionantes, en cualquier caso, en ese desarrollo generó una belleza contingente o compleja –“belleza comprometida” la hemos llamado–, cuyo rescate se debe procurar al mismo tiempo que el del artista.
Proyecto Tras la República: Redes y caminos de ida y vuelta en el arte español desde 1931 (Plan Nacional de I+D+i, ref. HAR2011-25864)
Peer reviewed
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Advertisement, Publicidad, Cartelismo, Muralist painting, Committed beauty, Fotomontaje, Pintura vanguardista, Avant-garde painting, Muralismo, Arte comprometido, Contemporary art, Patrimony safeguard, Graphic design, Belleza comprometida, Diseño gráfico, Realismo socialista, Salvaguarda del patrimonio, Propaganda, Artistic exile of 1939, Josep Renau, Committed art, Cartelism, Art déco, Socialist realism, Exilio artístico de 1939, Photomontage
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