Antonio Bueno - Untitled

Portraiture is one of the most widespread artistic expressions, especially in painting, but also in sculpture, throughout the ages. Portraiture is, first and foremost, a description of the subject depicted, an attempt to capture their physiognomy and individual characteristics truthfully and naturally. With the progressive evolution of artistic research, the physiognomic description of the subject has also been accompanied by a psychological one. Therefore, over the centuries, portraiture has also become a means of introspective investigation of the subject, their character, and their state of mind. The processes of abstraction brought about by contemporary art have contributed to this type of investigation.

This series of lithographs exemplifies the painter Antonio Bueno's recurring style and his exploration of the human figure. A constant in Antonio Bueno's work is the construction of the figure through rounded forms, with accentuated symmetry, as if generated by a rotation around a pivot. The facial features are generic but marked by a type of synthesis dictated by a conscious childishness that gives a naïve touch to Bueno's characters. Everything is always depicted with a lucid objectivity in which the rationality of the volumes is clearly enhanced, without any pictorial effect.

Antonio Bueno was a Spanish-born painter born in Germany in 1918. He moved to Italy with his brother Xavier, another artist, in 1940, where he achieved great critical and public success, exhibiting at the Venice Biennale in 1984. He died in Fiesole that same year. His artistic language was characterized by various phases, from Impressionism to Verism, and finally to abstract experimentation. However, his work is best remembered for its rounded, plastic figures with childlike features.

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