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The festivities will be held from April 28 to May 2
It is less to begin the 2011 Spring Festival.
Councilman Festivals and Popular Culture, Rafael Gomez, presented this morning, the Spring Festival lineup for 2011, Sewer work of artist Mariano Ballester.
The design in question represents the figures of a huertano and orchard with irregular outlines silhouetted against a background of red, green and blue that has been treated with the son of the painter, designer and artist Antonio Ballester.
As usual, have been printed a thousand copies that may be collected for free at the Tourist Office of the Plaza de la Catedral.
The Spring Festival will begin on Saturday, April 23, the Feast of Exaltation orchard which will take place at the Teatro Circo Cry coinciding with spring and official announcement of the Queens Garden, more and infant Damas 2011.
The festivities will last until Sunday 2 May.
Mariano Ballester Navarro was a pioneer in the field of art.
One of the founders of the New Bridge, which sought freedom from Murcia and Spanish painting that was made so far.
Ballester, in his research and experimentation, he created a language more expressive and direct, which was not subject to traditional rules used.
The technique used by the painter of Sewell was rated as anti-Impressionist, in an effort to regain the figure.
In 1936 achieved the title of school teacher.
During the Civil War he was imprisoned for political reasons, and from 1939 he worked in the recovery of works of art, which during the war had scattered.
During his studies in Madrid, received a grant from the Provincial and completed his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid from 1941 to 1948.
Among his teachers notes Daniel.
Stay in Paris.
Two years after completing his studies in Madrid he received a scholarship from the French Institute to continue his art studies in Paris.
From that moment makes numerous exhibitions in Switzerland and France.
In 1955 he received the National Award for his work Engraving Death Bird and the Prize of the Provincial Villacís.
He was professor of the School of Arts and Crafts Murcia from 1956 to 1958.
And in those years began to restore the paintings of Pablo Sistori in the Church of Our Father Jesus in Murcia.
New Bridge Group.
Founded in 1960 along with Ceferino Moreno and Cesar Arias group New Bridge, which was an homage to German Expressionist group known as Die Brücke.
New Bridge comes with an intention of artistic renewal in introducing avant-garde and new experiences as a need to break with traditional Spanish art.
Since the sixties.
In 1963 he again received the Award Villacis and six years later Murcia City Award.
In 1977 he was appointed director of the Museo de la Huerta Sewer.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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