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Rafael Canogar Art

Spanish, b. 1935
Rafael Canogar (Toledo, 1935), painter and engraver, is considered as one of the leading figures of Spanish Abstract Art. Between 1948 and 1953 he was a disciple of Daniel Vázquez Díaz and focused on the study of the avant-garde and evolved rapidly to an informalist abstraction. In 1957, Canogar founded with Antonio Saura, Manuel Millares, Luis Feito, Manuel Rivera, Pablo Serrano, Juana Francés, Antonio Suárez and José Ayllón the El Paso group. Between 1957 and 1960 they all defended the informalism as an expression of freedom in an attempt to enter Spain in the international framework. In 1960 he participates in the "New Spanish Painting and Sculpture" show at MOMA New York. In 1963, he starts a new stage in his life in which he gradually gets close to figuration with a rising narrative content. In works of this period we find new materials such as newspaper clippings and photographs his subjects are close to the human and the nature of objects. As the critic Vicente Aguilera says about the works of this stage: "The themes do not express opinions or reflect facts, but facts are human tragedies, are encoded images where the human, object and amount, become symbolic hierarchy". In 1971 he is awarded with the Grand Prize of the Bienal de São Paulo. After 1975 we find in his work a return to an abstraction that quickly becomes a new iconography that represents man as a plastic element through masks and faces. Notable from this period are his still lifes, city scenes and the heads of Julio González. In 1982 he was awarded the National Prize of Plastic Arts.
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Artist: Rafael Canogar
Spanish artist hand signed limited edition original art print monotype n2
Spanish artist hand signed limited edition original art print monotype n2

Spanish artist hand signed limited edition original art print monotype n2

By Rafael Canogar

Located in Miami, FL

Rafael Canogar (Spain, 1935) 'Semana Santa II', 2018 monotype on dibond 13 x 39.4 in. (33 x 100 cm.) 1st edition Unframed ID: CAN1030-108 Hand-signed by author ______________________...

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2010s Abstract Rafael Canogar Art

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Monotype

Los Juegos - Lithograph by Rafael Canogar - 2008
Los Juegos - Lithograph by Rafael Canogar - 2008

Los Juegos - Lithograph by Rafael Canogar - 2008

By Rafael Canogar

Located in Roma, IT

Los Juegos, Olympic Games Beijing 2008 is a mixed-colored lithograph realized by Rafael Canogar.  Edition of 260. Hand signed and numbered. This work belonging to the Suite "Olymp...

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Early 2000s Abstract Rafael Canogar Art

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Lithograph

Spanish artist hand signed limited edition original art print monotype n1
Spanish artist hand signed limited edition original art print monotype n1

Spanish artist hand signed limited edition original art print monotype n1

By Rafael Canogar

Located in Miami, FL

Rafael Canogar (Spain, 1935) 'Semana Santa I', 2018 monotype on dibond 13 x 39.4 in. (33 x 100 cm.) 1st edition Unframed ID: CAN1030-107 Hand-signed by author _______________________...

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2010s Abstract Rafael Canogar Art

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Monotype

El Herido, 1960's Spanish Avant Garde Political Screenprint Lithograph Signed
El Herido, 1960's Spanish Avant Garde Political Screenprint Lithograph Signed

El Herido, 1960's Spanish Avant Garde Political Screenprint Lithograph Signed

By Rafael Canogar

Located in Surfside, FL

The Wounded One (El Herido) from Violence (La Violencia) 1969 signed, dated and titled in pencil Dimensions: sheet: 22 1/16 x 30 1/16" (56 x 76.4cm) Rafael Canogar ( Toledo , 1935) is a Spanish painter, one of the leading representatives of abstract art in Spain. Disciple of Daniel Vazquez Díaz (1948-1953), in his first works he found a way to reach the avant garde and, very soon, to study abstraction deeply. He initially used a sculpture technique: with his hands he scratched or squeezed the paste that vibrated on flat colored backgrounds. It was a painting in which the initial gesture comes directly from the heart. At this point, Canogar embodied the best of painting material . In 1957 he founded with other artists the EI Paso group. With artists like Luis Feito, Manolo Millares, Pablo Serrano, Manuel Rivera and Antonio Saura, he begins the Spanish avant-garde movement and continues to do so until 1960. It is influenced by Action painting. They defended, between 1957 and 1960 , an informal aesthetic and the opening of Franco Spain...

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1960s Modern Rafael Canogar Art

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Screen

Spanish artist hand signed limited edition original art print monotype n3
Spanish artist hand signed limited edition original art print monotype n3

Spanish artist hand signed limited edition original art print monotype n3

By Rafael Canogar

Located in Miami, FL

Rafael Canogar (Spain, 1935) 'Semana Santa III', 2018 monotype on dibond 13 x 39.4 in. (33 x 100 cm.) 1st edition Unframed ID: CAN1030-109 Hand-signed by author _____________________...

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2010s Abstract Rafael Canogar Art

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Monotype

Los Juegos - Lithograph by Rafael Canogar - 2008
Los Juegos - Lithograph by Rafael Canogar - 2008

Los Juegos - Lithograph by Rafael Canogar - 2008

By Rafael Canogar

Located in Roma, IT

Los Juegos, Olympic Games Beijing 2008 is a mixed-colored lithograph realized by Rafael Canogar.  Edition of 260. Hand signed and numbered. This work belonging to the Suite "Olymp...

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Early 2000s Abstract Rafael Canogar Art

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Lithograph

Rafael Canogar, THE PICNIC
Rafael Canogar, THE PICNIC

Rafael Canogar, THE PICNIC

By Rafael Canogar

Located in Madrid, ES

RAFAEL CANOGAR Spanish, 1935 - THE PICNIC signed and dated "66 / Canogar" (lower right) signed, dated and titled "Canogar / 1966 / THE PICNIC O COMIENDO SOBRE LA HIERBA" (on the reve...

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1960s Rafael Canogar Art

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Canvas, Oil

Los Juegos - Lithograph by Rafael Canogar - 2008

Los Juegos - Lithograph by Rafael Canogar - 2008

By Rafael Canogar

Located in Roma, IT

Los Juegos, Olympic Games Beijing 2008is an original mixed-colored lithograph realized by Rafael Canogar. This work belonging to the Suite "Olympic Games Beijing 2008". Each work o...

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Early 2000s Abstract Rafael Canogar Art

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Lithograph

Los Juegos -l Lithograph by Rafael Canogar - 2008

Los Juegos -l Lithograph by Rafael Canogar - 2008

By Rafael Canogar

Located in Roma, IT

Los Juegos is an original mixed-colored lithograph realized by Rafael Canogar. This work belongs to the Suite "Olympic Games Beijing 2008". Each work of this portfolio is recognizab...

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Early 2000s Abstract Rafael Canogar Art

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Lithograph

Los Juegos - Lithograph by Rafael Canogar - 2008
Los Juegos - Lithograph by Rafael Canogar - 2008

Los Juegos - Lithograph by Rafael Canogar - 2008

By Rafael Canogar

Located in Roma, IT

Artist proof out of the edition of 260, numbered and hand signed. Realized in occasion of the Olympic Games in Beijing, China. Excellent conditions. Rafael Canogar Rafael canogar...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Rafael Canogar Art

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Lithograph

Los Juegos - Lithograph by R. Canogar- 2008
Los Juegos - Lithograph by R. Canogar- 2008

Los Juegos - Lithograph by R. Canogar- 2008

By Rafael Canogar

Located in Roma, IT

Edition of 260 prints, numbered and hand signed. Realized in occasion of the Olympic Games in Beijing, China. Excellent conditions. Canogar Rafael Canogar was born in toledo ...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Rafael Canogar Art

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El Pensador (The Thinker), hand signed lithograph
El Pensador (The Thinker), hand signed lithograph

El Pensador (The Thinker), hand signed lithograph

By Rafael Canogar

Located in Aventura, FL

Color lithograph with photolithography. Hand signed lower right by Rafael Canogar. Hand numbered 62/75 lower left corner. Artwork size 22 x 29 inches. Frame size 30 x 37 inches. ...

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1970s Contemporary Rafael Canogar Art

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Paper, Lithograph

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Tamarind lithograph workshop Los Angeles. Illustrated on the MoMA website. Rafael Canogar ( Toledo , 1935) is a Spanish painter, one of the leading representatives of abstract art in Spain. After the Spanish Civil War, Rafael Canogar and his family took up residence in Madrid in 1944. Disciple of Daniel Vazquez Díaz (1948-1953), with whom he mastered a figurative language inspired by the work of Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. In 1954 Canogar began to experiment with abstraction and informalism, motivated by Michel Tapié’s call for a collective art phenomenon. In 1957 he founded with other artists the EI Paso group. With artists like Luis Feito, Manolo Millares, Pablo Serrano, Manuel Rivera and Antonio Saura, he begins the Spanish avant-garde movement and continues to do so until 1960. It is influenced by Action painting. They defended, between 1957 and 1960 , an informal aesthetic and the opening of Franco Spain to the international scene. Informalism was eminently the expression of freedom, of the unique and unrepeatable, carried out with a direct and spontaneous calligraphy. Works eminently intuitive and passionate, made with the urgency that time, age and theories claimed. pieta, brothers in arms. He initially used a sculpture technique: with his hands he scratched or squeezed the paste that vibrated on flat colored backgrounds. It was a painting in which the initial gesture comes directly from the heart. At this point, Canogar embodied the best of painting material . 1974 Rafael Canogar participated along with Wolf Vostell , Edward Kienholz and other artists in Berlin in the activities of ADA - Aktionen der Avantgarde. In 1975 he abandons this realism and during a period realizes eminently abstract works, an analysis of the painting, of the support, of the bidimensionality of the painting. But Canogar needs to invent a new iconography , recover the memory and - in a tribute to the historical avant-gardes - that he realizes through the mask, the head, the face, as a representation of the man who loses his individuality and becomes a plastic sign. Similar in political objective to Joan Genoves he also utilized some of the techniques of pop art to devastating effect In 1982 receives the Golden Ball the National Prize of Plastic Arts . There are his works in several museums of modern art: Cuenca , Madrid, Barcelona, Turin, Rome, Caracas and Pittsburgh (Carnegie Institute), etc. In 1984 he was included in the prestigious Various Artists with Antoni Tapies, Rufino Tamayo, Robert Motherwell, José Guerrero...

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