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- generalData.title
- Señora de Atucha (María Terea Llavallol, 1868 - 1927)
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- París, 1917
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- technicalData.measurements
- 140 x 138 cm
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- Oil on canvas
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- technicalData.complementaryDescription
- The painter's attitude towards the portrait of women has peculiar nuances. All of them were equally attractive to him, he did not care at all about social status or environment. The differentiating quality of the woman's personality is not in such requirements of position or culture but precisely in the degree and tension of her energy, in her vitality, always more visible than in male portraits. The crux of each woman is expressed more than by her features or dresses, by the total gesture; for its appearance, its plant and its look. Hence the value that Zuloaga gives to these expressive details: a slant in his gaze, a curl of his lips, an inflection of his hip, a foot that moves forward.
In Zuloaga, the portrait is not limited to the representation of the character. Every portrait removes, first, characterization, that is, accentuation of the individual; second, symbolization, the sum of notes that, associated with the portrait itself, can give us an idea of the projection of one's personality on the world, of one's preferences or one's social physiognomy; third, composition, that is, the pure value of the painting, the relationship of the figure with the background and total unification of the portrait in a scheme that turns it into a painting.
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