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ROBERT BARNETE
BULL & MATADOR ART PAINTING
HIS SPANISH ERA PERIOD DURING HIS ARTISTIC CAREER
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FRAME MEASURES 28" BY 20" INCHES. ITEM IS IN GREAT CONDITION AS DISPLAYED IN THE PHOTO GALLERY.
Robert Barnete, considered by critics to be the Goya of the 20th Century. Though his subjects were the flamenco dancer, the toreador, the toro and, above all, the horse and its rider, his true passion was for glorious, articulated, electric energy and the power of motion.
Critics speak of his paintings as "an explosion of movement...lively, impetuous, dramatic." The vibrancy of his colors matches the potency of his images. Barnete's work and his inimitable touch have found their way into private collections all over the world.
Born in New York City, he graduated Art School at the age of seventeen and, having acquired a great interest in Spanish and Mexican art, went on to finish his studies at the University of Mexico. Influenced artistically and personally by the great muralist Diego Rivera he traveled extensively through Mexico, the Yucatan peninsula, the jungles of Central America, and Panama.
After several successful exhibitions in Mexico City, Barnete went to Paris to live and continue to study. After two years in Paris the strong impression left by his studies in Mexico took him to Spain, which was to become his home materially and artistically for the next twenty-eight years. Quoting again from his memoirs: "During the years I lived in Madrid, flamenco dancing was the theme that most absorbed me as a painter. The human body as expressed through the gestures of the dance was what led to my interest in the taurine theme. This in turn led eventually to my greatest passion - the equine theme." During his Spanish period Barnete absorbed the color, the emotion, the temperament of that fascinating country, and in all of the paintings his obsession is with movement.
His paintings of Spanish folklore themes earned him recognition world-wide. Art critics said that his wild scenes of flamenco dancers were moody sensitive oils that "with burning truth capture the very marrow of Spain." When the Spanish Government knighted him in 1966 for his contribution to Spanish Art and Culture, Barnete became only the second foreigner in Spanish history, and the first American painter, to be so honored.
In the 1960s and 1070s, Hollywood came to Spain in the form of film production. The people who bought Barnete's paintings reads like a Who's Who of Cinema: producers Jack Warner and Ted Richmond; Academy Award-winning director David Lean; actors and actresses such as Ava Gardner, Omar Sharif, Victor Mature, Broderick Crawford, Ursula Andress, Arthur Kennedy, John Derek, David Niven, Nicholas Ray, Lionel Jeffries, Warren Mitchell, Tyrone Power, Robert Mitchum, Tom Courtney, Anita Ekberg and Pedro Armendáriz all bought Barnete's work. The famed Maestro Dimitri Tiomkin and author Ernest Hemingway were also clients and great admirers of his. Aside from some four paintings now in the possession of his brother, theatre and film artist Alexander Barnett, all of the more than 1,000 Spanish paintings of Robert Barnete were sold and are all held in private collections.
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