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Plans is considered one of the best sculptors of all time Murcia
Eighty years after the great sculptor Jose Planes, natural Espinardo, inaugurated her latest work in the city of Murcia, the Mayor has submitted the piece Eve, a beautiful sculpture that adorns this morning from the garden of the painter Pedro Flores, in the neighborhood of El Carmen.
The event was also attended by the grandson of the sculptor, Jose Plans, Council Member for Culture, Rafael Gomez, and many neighborhood residents.
Mayor Chamber recalled the important career of the author, who has stressed that he learned to combine his love for this land with the completion of numerous works on it with its international projection.
Plans Jose is considered one of the best sculptors of all time Murcia and was instrumental in the landscape of the twentieth century Spanish sculpture:
This initiative involves the recovery of a highly visible part of the work of one of the most important artists Murcia of all time: José Plans (1891-1974).
Thus, the city of Murcia values ​​the memory and legacy of international sculptor, founder of the School of Arts and Crafts and Son of the City.
The sculptor Jose Planes, with only seventeen began his artistic career in a carpentry shop, where he soon proved to be a great carver and creator.
After his degree in Fine Arts, focused on the production of works of profane subject, focused on realism, to lead, inspired by Picasso and Gris, cubist cut into pieces.
After the Civil War, Plans focused its work on religious works, but in the fifties returned to secular works, this time embodied in splendid stylized pieces.
Production of Murcia author is distributed on five continents and has been praised by the most important sculptors of the twentieth century.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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