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33-531: The Fundació was created in 1984 by the artist Antoni Tàpies to promote the study and knowledge of modern and contemporary art. It combines the organisation of temporary exhibitions, symposia, lectures and film seasons with a range of publications to go with the activities and periodic shows of Tàpies' work. The Fundació owns one of the most complete collections of Tàpies' work, mostly made up of donations by Antoni and Teresa Tàpies. The Fundació opened in June 1990 in

66-662: A French government scholarship in the early 1950s, he lived in Paris , to which he often returned. Both in Europe and beyond, the highly influential French critic and curator Michel Tapié enthusiastically promoted the work of Antoni Tàpies. In 1948, Tàpies helped co-found the first post-war movement in Spain known as Dau al Set which was connected to the Surrealist and Dadaist Movements. The main leader and founder of Dau al Set

99-574: A large library that is dedicated solely to the artists of our century and the modern literature and documentation pertaining to the genre. Dau al Set Dau al Set ( Catalan pronunciation: [ˈdaw əl ˈsɛt] ), the first post- World War II artistic movement in Catalonia , was founded in Barcelona in September 1948 by poet Joan Brossa . The movement, best known for translating

132-570: A large political focus which was often used to contradict a given community's social norms often imposed by the bourgeois. Some artists from this movement that influenced Dau al Set were Joan Miró , Paul Klee , Josep Vicenç Foix , and Salvador Dalí . Other methods that were influenced was the idea of magical aspects that were often seen in the dream world surrealism created. However, in Dau al Set these magical aspects were developed and expounded upon. There were six founding members of Dau al Set including

165-679: A means for government endorsement and propaganda. In an attempt to revive the avant-garde scene in Spain Dau al Set was formed. In 1949, with help from Joan-Josep Tharrats 's private printing press, Dau al Set published its first self-entitled magazine journal. The majority of the publication was written in Catalan , a language prohibited in Francoist Spain . Dau al Set typically ran a print between one hundred and two hundred copies, consisting of four to twelve pages. The magazine journal

198-539: A museum in Catalonia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Antoni T%C3%A0pies Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies ( Catalan: [ənˈtɔni ˈtapi.əs] ; 13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012) was a Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist. The son of Josep Tàpies i Mestre and Maria Puig i Guerra, Antoni Tàpies Puig was born in Barcelona on 13 December 1923. His father

231-510: A poet Joan Brossa , a philosopher Arnau Puig , three artists Joan Ponç , Antoni Tàpies , and Modest Cuixart , as well as a dual painter and editor Joan-Josep Tharrats . Over the years Dau al Set ran there were occasional contributors, such as Juan Eduardo Cirlot , Antonio Saura , Enrique Tábara , and Manolo Millares . Their contributions came often in the form of writings which helped to continued to establish Dau al Set as an intellectual piece of work. Dau al Set actively participated in

264-425: A series of publications, some translated into different languages: La pràctica de l’art (1970), L’art contra l’estètica , (1974), Memòria personal (1978), La realitat com a art (1982), Per un art modern i progressista (1985), Valor de l’art (1993) and L’art i els seus llocs (1999). These works include Tàpies reflecting on things such as art, life, and politics. He also discusses the social role of art and

297-479: A year. The final issue was created and distributed in 1956. Initially, Dau al Set began as an offshoot of Surrealism , but slowly grew into a distinct style with many existing components. One such component began with the incorporation of the surrealist world of dreams, where in Dau al Set expands upon by combing scientific and philosophical articles with magical undertones derived from Joan Brossa's personalized style. The use of magical elements pervaded throughout

330-468: Is considered his most original contribution to art. One of the first to create serious art in this way, he added clay and marble dust to his paint and used waste paper, string, and rags (Grey and Green Painting, Tate Gallery, London, 1957). Canvas Burned to Matter from c. 1960, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art , is an example of the artist's mixed media assemblages that combine

363-570: The German School of Barcelona . After studying law for three years, he devoted himself from 1943 onwards only to his painting. In 1945 Tàpies began experimenting with materials. At this time he also became increasingly interested in philosophy , especially that of Jean-Paul Sartre as well as Eastern thought . He became known as one of Spain's most renowned artists in the second half of the 20th century. His abstract art and other avant-garde works were displayed in many major museums all over

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396-422: The Surrealist and Informal art styles. The following year Joan Ponç left to Brazil to continue to paint and spread his unique style. And one year later Modest Cuixart left the group as well. During this time from 1953 till 1956 Dau al Set continued to be created and published by Joan-Josep Tharrats. During the final years the magazine decreased from an issue a month to an issue every season to then two issues

429-658: The artist, reflects on the influences of his work, and explains his artistic as well as political views. Throughout the span of his life, Antoni Tàpies has been associated with a number of movements such as Art Informel and Haute Pâte , both of which were popular in post-war Europe. He became a part of the avant-garde group Dau al Set in 1948, a group that had strong ties to Surrealism. Early works of his were surrealistic, but in 1953 he began working in abstract art. Some of Tàpies's most famous and original works fall within this genre. They are characterized by his use of marble dust and clay that he mixed with his paints as well as

462-468: The avant-garde. This style was meant to fight against the upper class in society with the belief that their reason and logic were the cause of war. With an anti-reason and anti-logic sentiment most of the works of art often contained elements of chaos and irrationality. Dadaist art also utilized the following techniques of cubism , collages , cut-up technique , photomontages , and assemblage which can be seen in Dau al Set's work. From this movement spawned

495-609: The building of the former Montaner i Simon publishing house, a work of the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner , restored and refurbished by the architects Roser Amadó and Lluís Domènech Girbau. Constructed between 1880 and 1885, at an early stage of the evolution of Catalan Modernisme style, the building was the first in the Eixample district to integrate industrial typology, combining exposed brick and iron. 41°23′30″N 2°09′49″E  /  41.39167°N 2.16361°E  / 41.39167; 2.16361 This article about

528-461: The conscious and unconscious mind into art, was heavily influenced by both the Surrealist and Dadaist movements. In Catalan Dau al Set means "the seventh face of the dice", which expresses the movement's rupturist character. Dau al Set first began as an avant-garde artistic collective led by Joan Brossa , a Catalan poet, in September 1948. Joan Brossa established the group in response to

561-470: The eighties. This group also stood as a large influence for other artistic movements in Spain such as the Grup d’Elx and El Paso, with important artists such as Joan Castejón , Eusebio Sempere or Manolo Millares . Additionally, each of the members made their own impacts after the movement was dissolved. Most notably is Antoni Tàpies who continued with his style based heavily in surrealism and later became

594-521: The entire movement to showcase an esoteric world of inner exploration. While magic was seen consistently the different members each contributed a unique style to Dau al Set. One of the most drastic was the contributions from Joan Ponç . Ponç's art frequently contained demonic images actualized with a series of different monsters throughout the work. In contrast, Modest Cuixart's work often contained images of fantasy influenced by German expressionism and Joan Miró . Finally, Antoni Tápies often emulated

627-609: The exhibition at the Institut Francais and the Sala Caralt. Dau al Set has had a lasting impact throughout history the most notable being the continuation of the avant-garde in Spain throughout Francoist Spain. Moreover, Dau al Set contributed to the creation of the Informalist movement seen in Spain during the fifties. Also the magical and fantasy elements of Dau al Set was seen to later emerge again in Spain in

660-479: The incorporation of found objects such as string, paper, and cloth. In the late 1960s into the early 1970s Tàpies began to be influenced by the movement of pop art . Because of this he began using larger items, such as pieces of furniture, in his works. The Fundació Antoni Tàpies is a museum and cultural center located in Carrer d'Aragó , in Barcelona that is dedicated to the works and life of Antoni Tàpies. It

693-434: The magazine, D’ací i d’allà , which contained reproductions of works by artists such as Marcel Duchamp , Georges Braque , Wassily Kandinsky and Pablo Picasso . At 17, Tàpies suffered a near-fatal heart attack caused by tuberculosis . He spent two years as a convalescent in the mountains, reading widely and pursuing an interest in art that had already expressed itself when he was in his early teens. Tàpies studied at

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726-710: The period's conservative reigning government, which gained power after the Spanish Civil War known as the " Guerra Civil ". Under the new Spanish State , Francisco Franco radically changed many areas of the previous culture. One such example was the Spanish art community as seen in art and culture in Francoist Spain . During this time counterculture movements in Catalonia and Spain in general came to an abrupt halt. Such artistic groups were replaced with Nationalist Francoist Art , which often functioned as

759-435: The pre-war avant-garde which was the community Dau al Set were trying to revive. Some influential artists on Dau al Set from this movement are Francis Picabia and Max Ernst . Another influence on Dau al Set was Surrealism , a cultural movement greatly influenced by Dadaism, which began in the 1920s. This style was often considered a portrayal of the dream world; a reality which existed right below everyday life. It also had

792-497: The principles of Dada and Surrealism . Tàpies' international reputation was well established by the end of the 1950s. From the late 1950s to early 1960s, Tàpies worked with Enrique Tábara , Antonio Saura , Manolo Millares and many other Spanish Informalist artists. In 1966, he was arrested at a clandestine assembly at the University of Barcelona ; his work of the early 1970s is marked by symbols of Catalan identity (which

825-483: The realms of painting, sculpture, etchings and lithography. Examples of his work are found in numerous major international collections. His work is associated with both Tachisme and Abstract Expressionism . The paintings produced by Tàpies, later in the 1970s and in the 1980s, reveal his application of this aesthetic of meditative emptiness, for example in spray-painted canvases with linear elements suggestive of Oriental calligraphy, in mixed-media paintings that extended

858-428: The style of Paul Klee with obscure images surrounded by a dark atmosphere and phosphorescent lighting. With the base of magical elements these three unique techniques joined to create the style seen in the Dau al Set movement. Dau al Set was heavily influenced by two movements before its creation, those two being Dadaism and Surrealism . Dadaism was a European art movement in the early 20th century which focused on

891-855: The vocabulary of Art informel, and in his oblique allusions to imagery within a fundamentally abstract idiom, as in Imprint of a Basket on Cloth (1980). Among the artists' work linked in style to that of Tàpies is that of the American painter Julian Schnabel as both have been connected to the art term "Matter". Tàpies began producing graphic work in 1947. He produced collector’s books and dossiers in association with poets and writers such as Alberti , Bonnefoy , Du Bouchet , Brodsky , Brossa , Daive , Dupin , Foix , Frémon , Gimferrer , Guillén , Jabès , Mestres Quadreny , Mitscherlich , Paz , Saramago , Takiguchi , Ullán , Valente and Zambrano . Tàpies has written essays which have been collected in

924-503: The world. In 1954, Tàpies married Teresa Barba Fabregas. Together, they had three children Antoni, Miguel and Clara. He lived mainly in Barcelona . Tàpies died on 6 February 2012. Tàpies first came into contact with contemporary art as a teenager through the magazine D’Ací i D’Allà , published in Barcelona, and during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), while he was still at school, he taught himself to draw and paint. On

957-636: Was a lawyer and Catalan nationalist who served briefly with the Republican government . Due to this, Tàpies grew up in an environment where he was exposed to a variety of cultural and social experiences of leaders in the Catalan public life and its republicanism. His maternal grandmother also exposed him to this world with her great involvement in civil and political activities. Tàpies was first introduced to modern art as he entered secondary school in 1934. He became inspired by famous Christmas issue of

990-524: Was anathema to Franco ). In 1974 he made a series of lithographs called Assassins and displayed them in the Galerie Maeght in Paris, in honour of militant anarchist Salvador Puig Antich 's memory. In about 1970 (influenced by pop art ), he began incorporating more substantial objects into his paintings, such as parts of furniture. Tàpies's ideas have had worldwide influence on art, especially in

1023-431: Was delivered throughout Barcelona to those with subscriptions and served a niche population at the time. The format of the magazine was 22.5 cm x 18.7 cm in the broadsheet style and never bound. These publications continued on a regular basis until the end of 1951 at which point Dau al Set began to dissolve. In 1952, Dau al Set founding member Antoni Tàpies left the group to promote his own independent work in

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1056-430: Was established in 1984 by Tàpies himself. His intent was to create a forum that would promote the study as well as the knowledge of modern and contemporary art. It includes the temporary exhibitions, film seasons, lectures, symposiums, as well as different activities and showings of Tàpies's work. The foundation owns one of the most extensive collections of Tàpies's work, mostly donated by Tàpies himself. It also contains

1089-409: Was the poet Joan Brossa . The movement also had a publication of the same name, Dau al Set . Tàpies started as a surrealist painter, his early works were influenced by Paul Klee and Joan Miró ; but soon become an informal artist, working in a style known as pintura matèrica , in which non artistic materials are incorporated into the paintings. In 1953, he began working in mixed media ; which

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