Leonardo DA Vinci, Tintoretto and Picasso prepared their art work with rough sketches. Like most artists I guess, just an outline, a draft, a few dots and lines ... before and until photography was invented. That had served many artists, painters and sculptors as support sketches or drafts for their creations. It was well known that Josep Maria Sert (Barcelona 1874-1945) was one of them, hailed as one of the greatest European painters in the 20th century, of gigantic murals.
He was also a collector of photographs and almost always went around carrying a camera. What's not known was up to what point he counted on this technique, how he used it in a systematic way to study the shape and form, to construct his gigantic murals. That's what the Exhibition of Josep Maria Sert revels. The photographic archives of the model, the working process.
The exhibition redeems more than 50 exceptional photos till now never shown or edited. They belong to Leonard Mancini, assistant of Sert in the Work Studio of woodcraft, gilder that covered objects with gold plates, with whom the artist prepared his works and, above all, model for the study of anatomy for the monumental art done by the painter.
It's just the opposite of the objective of an exhibition, because none of the pieces were completed. They were preliminary exercises that shows the method of how he created his impressive masterpieces, the art 'work in progress'. The exhibition reveals the procedures of the process. They are photos of the workings, well worn by much use during the process, with annotations and very rough sketches at the back of them. Studies done with objects of real bodies after interminable poses; epic scenes mounted with figures, clay dolls, wood dioramas (3 dimensional representation of scenes created by placing objects, figures, etc., in front of a 2 dimensional painted background), ropes and chains, oddments of cloth ... images that constituted the discovery of the 1st order that in the future could become public patrimony.
The Exhibition is opened to visitors in the Arts Santa Monica, each day till the 11th of September, free. Well worth the visit.
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