TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes hosted this exhibition which focused on Oscar Dom\u00ednguez's time in Czechoslovakia, between 1946 and 1949.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00d3scar Dom\u00ednguez (Tenerife, 1906 - Paris, 1957) has gone down in the history of modern art as one of the most important Spanish painters of the first half of the 20th century, following in the footsteps of Picasso, Gris, Dal\u00ed and Mir\u00f3. In February 1946, as soon as the Second World War was over, a group exhibition entitled The Art of Republican Spain. Spanish Artists of the Paris School. The exhibition was a fabulous success, and a substantial part of the 224 works on display, mainly paintings, drawings and engravings, remained in Czech and Slovak collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The physical presence of the painters \u00d3scar Dom\u00ednguez, Joaqu\u00edn Peinado, Pedro Flores, Antoni Clav\u00e9 and Manuel Viola, as well as the sculptors Baltazar Lobo, Honorio Garc\u00eda Condoy and Apel-les Fenosa, also contributed to the success. They became friends with Czech artists, some of them for life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00d3scar Dom\u00ednguez attracted great attention, not only because of the number of paintings he exhibited (12), but above all because of the strength of his attractive personality, his originality and artistic and vital coherence, an influence which he exerted even before the war, through his decalcomanies, which so motivated the Czech Surrealists, led by the poet V\u00edt\u011bzslav Nezval. Dom\u00ednguez returned to Czechoslovakia several more times, organising exhibitions with each visit, and experienced very intense moments in that country, not only from a personal but also from a professional point of view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Apart from the works presented at his exhibitions, which were generally sold or given away, other occasional works remained in Czechoslovakia, which Dom\u00ednguez produced in Olomouc and Bratislava, where he had at his disposal workshops lent to him by his colleagues J\u00e1ra \u0160olc and J\u00e1n Mudroch. Other Czech and Slovak collectors also acquired his works during visits to his studio in Paris. This exhibition reconstructed Dom\u00ednguez's pictorial career during those years through a series of works from private collections and from Czech, Slovak and Spanish public institutions, which gave a good account of that exciting episode.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":865,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","exposiciones","type-exposiciones","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n