Julio Viera (8 July 1934 – 27 August 2023) was a Spanish painter.
Life and work
Viera was born in
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
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on 8 July 1934. He possessed a style akin to surrealism. A multifaceted artist, he worked in a Belgian coal mine to draw inspiration for the creation of his works. He has also served as an actor-director in theater and has created surrealistic films. He has dabbled in sculpture, jewelry design, poetry, music, novel writing, and has published satirical humor articles in the press, all in addition to his fundamental role as a painter and draftsman.
In Paris, towards the end of the 1950s, he establishes connections with other Spanish painters who are also in the French capital, such as
Alejandro Conde López, and he meets and interacts with Salvador Dalí.
Critics have defined his work as that of a highly stylized modern Renaissance artist, a bold colorist with tremendous vitality and energy in his canvases. Due to its unique character, his work reaches the viewer, either inspiring enthusiasm or provoking indignation, as indifference seems to have no place with him.
Two of his monumental canvases are displayed at the
Vatican Museums
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. These two large-format paintings (2 meters) are titled "Black Christ" and "Christ of the Atlantic." Julio Viera himself presented them to the Pope.
Viera died in
Palma de Mallorca
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on 27 August 2023, at the age of 89.
Bibliography
Miquel-Angel CLARET, crítica en "LA RESURECCIÓN DEL GATO" de Julio Viera. Ed. Promocions. Palma de Mallorca 1985. ISBN 84-86191-06-8
References
External links
ElDia.es: El artista Julio Viera, genio internacional* [http://www.laopinion.es/cultura/2014/07/06/trayectoria-debo-escuela-lujan-perez/551547.html Galán, Raquel: ''´Mi trayectoria se la debo a la Escuela Luján Pérez, fue mi primer aprendizaje´''. La Opinión. Tenerife, 6 de julio de 2014]
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1934 births
2023 deaths
20th-century Spanish painters
20th-century Spanish male artists
Spanish male painters
People from Las Palmas