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Manuel Barbadillo BIOGRAPHY
1929 Cazalla de la Sierra, Seville - 2003 Malaga. Known for: Abstract experimentation, reduction of color, binary language, use of repetitive forms, and computer-generated art..
Manuel Barbadillo began his training in the studio of José Arpa (1941), and later moved to the workshop of sculptor Emilio García Ortiz, where he remained between 1944 and 1947. He finally... Read full biography
Manuel Barbadillo began his training in the studio of José Arpa (1941), and later moved to the workshop of sculptor Emilio García Ortiz, where he remained between 1944 and 1947. He finally completed his training at the School of Arts and Crafts between 1951 and 1953. At the same time he... Read full biography
Manuel Barbadillo began his training in the studio of José Arpa (1941), and later moved to the workshop of sculptor Emilio García Ortiz, where he remained between 1944 and 1947. He finally completed his training at the School of Arts and Crafts between 1951 and 1953. At the same time he studied law, and when he finished his studies in 1954 he exhibited for the first time at the Ateneo de Sevilla. Barbadillo then traveled to Morocco, where he remained until 1957, and there he... Read full biography
Manuel Barbadillo began his training in the studio of José Arpa (1941), and later moved to the workshop of sculptor Emilio García Ortiz, where he remained between 1944 and 1947. He finally completed his training at the School of Arts and Crafts between 1951 and 1953. At the same time he studied law, and when he finished his studies in 1954 he exhibited for the first time at the Ateneo de Sevilla. Barbadillo then traveled to Morocco, where he remained until 1957, and there he definitively left figuration behind to focus on abstract experimentation. In 1959, he moved to New York where he remained until 1962. Barbadillo's work was framed in the informalist abstraction, at first showing influences of abstract... Read full biography
Manuel Barbadillo began his training in the studio of José Arpa (1941), and later moved to the workshop of sculptor Emilio García Ortiz, where he remained between 1944 and 1947. He finally completed his training at the School of Arts and Crafts between 1951 and 1953. At the same time he studied law, and when he finished his studies in 1954 he exhibited for the first time at the Ateneo de Sevilla. Barbadillo then traveled to Morocco, where he remained until 1957, and there he definitively left figuration behind to focus on abstract experimentation. In 1959, he moved to New York where he remained until 1962. Barbadillo's work was framed in the informalist abstraction, at first showing influences of abstract expressionism. However, his language will soon derive in the line of the reduction of color, until deriving in sober, monochrome works, dense in pictori... Read full biography
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Manuel Barbadillo began his training in the studio of José Arpa (1941), and later moved to the workshop of sculptor Emilio García Ortiz, where he remained between 1944 and 1947. He finally completed his training at the School of Arts and Crafts between 1951 and 1953. At the same time he studied law, and when he finished his studies in 1954 he exhibited for the first time at the Ateneo de Sevilla.
Barbadillo then traveled to Morocco, where he remained until 1957, and there he definitively left figuration behind to focus on abstract experimentation. In 1959, he moved to New York where he remained until 1962. Barbadillo's work was framed in the informalist abstraction, at first showing influences of abstract express...But wait, there's more...
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