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Armando Romero
Raquel Tibol
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Description for Armando Romero
Paperback. The first monograph on the Mexican artist, Armando Romero, offering a complete overview of his neoeclectic paintings in which he combines his versions of historic paintings by artists, such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Goya, and Bosch, with popular contemporary characters. Num Pages: 252 pages, 200 colour. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 240 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1542.
Armando Romero's paintings often juxtapose his re-painting of historical works by Old Masters like Velazquez, Bosch, and Veronese with images from popular culture; consequently, the adjective most commonly used to describe his work is 'irreverent.' This practice is typified in series like Las Nuevas Tentaciones De San Antonio (2000) in which he re-paints and re-presents Bosch's triptych The Temptations of St. Anthony (1501) but in addition to the fantastic imagery typical of Bosch already in the original, Romero adds Tweety, Pokemon, various Looney Tunes and Disney characters - Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, and Goofy - superheroes ... Read more
Armando Romero's paintings often juxtapose his re-painting of historical works by Old Masters like Velazquez, Bosch, and Veronese with images from popular culture; consequently, the adjective most commonly used to describe his work is 'irreverent.' This practice is typified in series like Las Nuevas Tentaciones De San Antonio (2000) in which he re-paints and re-presents Bosch's triptych The Temptations of St. Anthony (1501) but in addition to the fantastic imagery typical of Bosch already in the original, Romero adds Tweety, Pokemon, various Looney Tunes and Disney characters - Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, and Goofy - superheroes ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Turner Publicaciones, S.L. Spain
Number of pages
252
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Madrid, Spain
ISBN
9788416354931
SKU
V9788416354931
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About Raquel Tibol
Armando Romero (Mexico City, 1964) completed his university studies in sculpture at the INBA National School of Plastic Arts, La Esmeralda, where he later became a professor. Up to the present time, he has had more than 25 individual exhibitions and has taken part in more than one hundred group exhibitions in Mexico, the United States and several European countries. ... Read more
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