© Maruja Mallo. VEGAP, Madrid, 2021

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Estampa
Vignette
Maruja Mallo
Medium
Color pencil on paper
Dimensions
Printed area size: 39 × 30 cm
Measures with a framework: 76,5 × 65 cm
Inventory
FM000300
Date
1928
1928
Inscription/Legend
Signed and dated in the lower left corner: "Maruja Mallo 2-1928"
Author
Born: Vivero, Lugo, 1902
Died: Madrid, 1995
Drawing
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Estampa © Maruja Mallo. VEGAP, Madrid, 2022

© Maruja Mallo. VEGAP, Madrid, 2021

Descripción

In the spring/summer of 1928 Maruja Mallo presented the exhibition Cuadros y estampas [Paintings and Etchings], that included her most recent creations revolving around three concepts: folklore, the beach and sporting scenes, and images of cinema and mannequins.

Each one of these categories was resolved by means of a different technique. Color was predominant in subjects related to folklore while the cinematic images where black and white with a number of pale chromatic hues, as in this drawing in which the glasses have blue and brown reflections.

This compositional method is reminiscent of the findings in avant-garde film. Maruja Mallo used the technique of juxtaposition in order to create a third concept, much like Sergei Eisenstein. For example: the cocktails are juxtaposed to the laboratory flasks; the eyeless baroque angel to the glass eyes; the steps to the gradation of the clouds in the sky. In this way the work conveys the idea of a decadent world within a space that is conceived as a theater.

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Estampa © Maruja Mallo. VEGAP, Madrid, 2022

© Maruja Mallo. VEGAP, Madrid, 2021

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