oil on linen, 143 x 143 cm (framed)
Private collection
I spent a lot of time reading about Spanish culture and looking at the work of artists such as Velásquez and Goya so although I was working intuitively on this large canvas adding layers of earthy colours it was only when I made the decision to mix a number of colours creating this brown-black which I brushed rapidly onto the canvas which lay on the floor an lift one side to let the paint run down the canvas that I saw this bull-like figure appear. I added more paint to the right to create the body but apart from that the figure is as I found it. Even a piece of hair had fallen into the paint suggesting an eye.
A few years later when I came to Madrid and visited the Reina Sofía Museum I was very struck by the similarities with Robert Motherwell´s Totemic Figure from 1958.
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