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Art Readings analyzes on Monday "Smoke Painting" Rocio Robles Late, published by Siruela.
The meeting will take place at 18.30 in the Río_Caballerizas Mills.
"Smoke Painting" is a reflection on the influence of trains and stations in the origins of modern art.
It is a short essay that reflects on the influence of the train in the art of the nineteenth century.
It focuses mainly on French art of the time, and analyzes the influence of the railroad in the Impressionist painters.
Late Rocío Robles was born in Madrid in 1976 and a PhD in Art History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
His research focuses on the use of the image of the train by artists, politicians and poets.
He describes this work: "From the moment he burst into the nature and everyday life in the early nineteenth century, the train became a regulatory element of the customs, time, money, history, but . too art, urbanism and architecture A well-known episode of Modern Art, Impressionism, is approached here from the railroad to show that it not only works as a mere excuse and inevitable iconographic motif with which illustrate his century: trains appear as the quintessential embodiment of the modern, the synthesis of speed, order, economy, energy consumption and smoke. train not only acts as a means of mass transport and freight, but the locomotives, coal-eating, expel the false clouds painting the new painters stationed at train stations. Wagons are matched to the rooms where the bourgeoisie enjoys its art objects.'s new paint finishes being conducted impressionists such as smoky clouds painting and as academic and modern, as if from the beginning bases dissipation sit "
Art Readings are held monthly since 2011 to people close to the study and artistic thought bring us his views on selected texts.
Javier Castro, who participates in these meetings since 2013, is co-director of the Editorial Micromegas Murcia.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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