Hieronymus Bosch in the work of Modest Cuixart

Abstract

The Catalan painter Modest Cuixart (Barcelona, 1925 – Palamós, 2007) is one of the most representative artists of the second half of the twentieth century in Catalonia. Being a founding member of the Dau al Set collective, he became one of the most important surrealist painters during the post-war years. In the fifties, he started his informalist period, attracted by the possibilities of experimentation with matter, returning later to figurative methods. Sinuous calligraphy, biological deformities, oppressive atmospheres… these are just some of the numerous elements that define the dream world of the artist. Despite the temporal distance, the duo Bosch-Cuixart represents a crossroads between two cosmic projections defined by exceptionally brilliant and unorthodox codes, joined in the desire to create an art based on ethics.