JULIO ROMERO DE TORRES, 1924 - Encendiendo la mecha (Lighting the fuse) / Oil on canvas 63.5 × 40.5cm [Rus: Поджигание фитиля] : 無料・フリー素材/写真

JULIO ROMERO DE TORRES, 1924 - Encendiendo la mecha (Lighting the fuse) / Oil on canvas 63.5 × 40.5cm [Rus: Поджигание фитиля] / Crystal.Rain

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説明	☆Location: MAXAM Foundation, Madrid, SpainSource: museojulioromero.cordoba.es/?id=454POSTERS SPANISH EXPLOSIVES UNION📌The Unión Española de Explosivos (Spanish Explosives Factory) started a cultural sponsorship which continues to exist today. The goal of the factory was to offer a calendar intended to spread the activities and image of the company. Every year they commissioned a representative painter from of the time to create the images for the calendar. There were only two rules to be respected: the images had to be figurative paintings and related to the company's activities.Julio Romero de Torres painted some images for the above-mentioned calendars, influenced by the French movement which used the poster as advertising strategy. He painted perfectly the proposed subject known as Mujeres de explosivos (Women of explosives) representing the conservative mentality of that time. The female protagonists of those posters, such as Encendiendo la mecha (Lighting the Fuse) from 1924, La escopeta de caza (Hunting rifle) from 1929 (www.flickr.com/photos/140907479@N08/49535740707/in/datepo...), Mujer con Pistola / Woman with Pistol from 1925 (www.flickr.com/photos/140907479@N08/49533859986/in/datepo...) and El cohete (The Rocket) from 1931 (www.flickr.com/photos/140907479@N08/49535070338/in/datepo...), were some of his favorite models of those years.📌One of the most popular works amongst the Explosives Calendars is this one by Romero de Torres. It has all the features for which the MAXAM Collection is renowned. An author celebrated by both critics and the general public. An image related to an activity carried out by the company: in the foreground, a cartridge of dynamite; in the background scenery, a mine. Meanwhile, a ‘popular’ subject: its protagonist is a woman, a brown-haired lady with a coy look and a Mona Lisa smile. (Appropriate, given that the Cordovan painter confessed that he felt such admiration towards Leonardo da Vinci, “…such that I consider him to be the first painter in history…”).The recognizable face is that of the Sevilian dancer Elisa Muniz –called "Amarantina"–, one of his regular models. Her daringly self-possessed bearing reveals the theatrical air of music and dancing. It is a style that he recognized well from the Plaza del Potro in Córdoba, where he was born and where he lived out his life; it is a spirit typical of all the women he knew and which, without any doubt, was part of his trademark. This element also turned his women into icons of the typical and sometimes topical Spanish identity – “Julio Romero de Torres and his paintings of dark-haired women”. The strength and fame of this legacy is what has also turned this work of art into an icon of the MAXAM Collection, and into part of the logo of the MAXAM Foundation.The symbolism of this work is not only hidden in that (deceitful?) smile, which at the time of the painting’s conception would have seemed unconventionally playful. It is also hidden in the background, given that we do not know if it is supposed to be a related setting, or perhaps a stage upon which “Amarantina” was acting. The ambiguous atmosphere refuses to reveal whether it is spiritual, imaginary or dream-like; it can lead us even to a philosophical discussion about Plato's cavern myth.Where should we focus our attention? In the world of the senses? That which is represented by the dancer with the smile that provokes our senses? Or is it the world of reason? That other one, within the mine, in which man enters by way of chemistry and explosives in order to obtain the material that is later transformed –be they minerals, metals, etc.–, and which come to form part of the daily elements and circumstances of our lives –within cell phones, electric lighting, running water…–. Perhaps the truth of the painting is in the crossroads of these two worlds, in the progress and development that allow for products like explosives, which help each and every one of us achieve our lifestyle.
撮影日	2020-02-07 00:29:06
撮影者	Crystal.Rain
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