After Picasso, Spanish Landscapes
After Picasso:
Spanish Landscapes
The land gives birth to us. Our creations, our inspirations, are gifts from the Earth. The soil, rocks, rivers, fields, and mountains permeate into our unconsciousness, our soul. We are just a further manifestation of a greater consciousness.
In central Spain there is a dry landscape of mountains and cultivated fields. This area is not far from where some of Spain’s great modern artists were born. When I first saw these landscapes from above in 2021, I felt certain that this landscape had inspired Picasso, Miro and other great Spanish artists. As if the abstraction they invented had been uploaded into their unconsciousness by the land on which they were born and raised, from which they ate and received nourishment. Whether they’d ever seen these field east of Zaragoza and recognize the influence or not, Spain’s artists seem to have expressed forms already made by the interaction of farmers and the land.
