TRIBUTE TO HERNANDO VIÑÉS. GENERACIÓN DEL 27

ALMUZARA PAINTING PRIZE ACCESSIT 2023

INMACULADA LÓPEZ HERNÁNDEZ. @ilh.art

Tribute to Hernando Viñés. Generación del 27. 

ALMUZARA PAINTING PRIZE ACCESSIT 2023

Inmaculada López Hernández 

(@ilh.art)

The pictorial research is based on the photograph taken on May 13, 1936 at the Hostería Cervantes in Madrid, thanks to the initiative of Pepín Bello, writer and intellectual in the Homage to Hernando Viñés, painter, not everyone attended, those present shared Concern about the complicated political situation at the time, two months later, the Spanish Civil War began, putting an end to their projects and some their lives. It would be the end of the Generation of '27.

I have had the pleasure of researching each person photographed by analyzing a multitude of old black and white photographs, which has made me look for opinions or memories of the people who knew them and discover, thus, with glory, things such as the beautiful color of the eyes of Miguel Hernández, I have traveled with this multitude of characters through their lives and for a few months, I have been lucky enough to enjoy their art, when I portrayed a poet, I used to put their verses in podcats, great poems by García Lorca, Rafael Alberti, Pablo Neruda, what made them present, accompanying me in the creative process, as if they were waiting to be painted, even indicating, through their work, how to represent them, this is what happened to me with Guillermo de Torre, after discovering in manifest ultraist and reading his aesthetic ideology or painting Acario Cotapos while listening to his musical compositions, discovering the work of sculptors and painters such as Honorio Condoy, Alberto Sánchez or José Caballero have given me the guidelines to humbly represent their portraits.

I researched their lives, but I did not want to portray them in that frozen moment of time, I have sought to paint the mark that they have left on us, to paint it on their faces, how the life of each of us is marked, on our own face, and including in the equation the metaphysical perspective, where the temporal adjective does not designate, to translate it to physical time, seeking in each of them the being, as a distinct principle of identity

In the box from left to right above,

Eduardo Ugarte (writer, set designer, screenwriter and film director),

Adolfo Salazar (musicologist, critic, historian, journalist and composer),

Alfonso Buñuel (architect),

Juan Vicens (librarian),

Acario Cotapos (composer),

Miguel Hernández (poet and playwright),

Neruda (poet and critic),

Maryca (bank worker, wife of Pablo Neruda),

In second row left to right;

José Caballero (painter),

Eva Tay (dance poetry),

García Lorca (poet, playwright and prose writer),

Luis Buñuel (Writer, screenwriter and film director),

Lupe Condoy (wife and model of Honorio Condoy),

Rafael Alberti (Poet and playwright),

Guillermo de Torre (essayist, poet and literary and art critic),

Rafael Sánchez Ventura (philosopher, museographer and diplomat),

Honorio Condoy (sculptor and painter),

Third row left to right

Alberto Sánchez (sculptor and painter)

Delia del Carril «La Hormiguita» (engraver, painter and draftsman)

Pilar Bayona (pianist)

Hernando Viñes (painter)

Lulú Jourdan (wife of Hernando Viñés)

María Teresa León (writer, novelist, essayist, screenwriter)

Gustavo Durán (composer, soldier, spy, and writer)

Mrs. de Dorronsoro (political activist)

In fourth row left to right;

Domenec Pruna (filmmaker, Metro worker)

Hortelano (draftsman)

Pepín Bello (writer and intellectual)

Santiago Ontañón (set designer and playwright)

Fifth row;

Miguel Benitez Anglot (musician)

Portrayed, José Caballero, Eduardo Ugarte, Eva Thais, Adolfo Salazar, Alfonso Buñuel, García Lorca, Juan Vicéns, Luis Buñuel, Lupe Condoy, Acacio Cotapos, Alberti, Guillermo de Torre, Miguel Hernández, Neruda, Rafael Sánchez Ventura, Maria A. Agenaar Volgelzanz, Honorio Condoy, Alberto Sánchez, Delia del Carril, Pilar Bayona, Hernando Viñes, Lulú Jourdan, María Teresa León, Gustavo Durán, Sra. de Dorronsoro, Domingo Pruna, Hortelano, Pepín Bello and Santiago Ontañón

Inmaculada López Hernández

(@ilh.art)