Josep Guinovart, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Josep Guinovart

Spanish artist

Date of Birth: 20-Mar-1927

Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Date of Death: 12-Dec-2007

Profession: painter, printmaker, drawer

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Josep Guinovart

  • Josep Guinovart (20 March 1927 in Barcelona – 12 December 2007 in Barcelona) was a Catalan painter most famous for his informalist or abstract expressionist work.In 1941, he began to work as a decorator.
  • Three years later, he started his studies at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios de la Llotja (Art School of La Llotja) where he stayed until 1946. He first exhibited his work in 1948 in GalerĂ­as Syla in Barcelona.
  • In 1951, he produced his first engravings entitled 'Homage to Federico GarcĂ­a Lorca'.
  • Two years later, he was awarded a grant from the French Institute to study in Paris for nine months.
  • Here he discovered the cubist works of Matisse and Picasso and travelled to Belgium, Holland and Germany. On his return to Barcelona and after a period working as an illustrator and set designer, around 1957 he began moving towards abstract art.
  • His work is highly unconventional and usually on a large scale, using a wide range of materials, three-dimensional objects and organic substances such as eggshell, earth and straw.In 1962, he illustrated a book of poetry entitled Posies by Joan Salvat-Papasseit for the Ariel Editorial.
  • He won many accolades for his work throughout the 1970s and 80s, including Spain's National Award for Plastic Arts in 1982.In 1994, a museum foundation dedicated to his art was inaugurated in Agramunt, his mother's birthplace to which he always felt a special attachment. In 2006 he designed the winery Mas Blanch i JovĂ© in La Pobla de CĂ©rvoles (Lleida) and created The Artists' Vineyard, a project intended to mix sculptures and other art works from different artists in the middle of a vineyard.
  • The Artists' Vineyard was inaugurated after his death in 2010 with the unveiling of his sculpture The Countryside Organ: a music instrument, 6 meters height, for the wind to sing the vines.
  • This winery also displays the 10.5 meters work In Vino Veritas and other artists' works. He died on 12 December 2007 at the age of 80, a few days after suffering a heart attack.
  • He is buried in the Sant Gervasi Cemetery, Barcelona.

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