Rafael Alberti, Creative Sign, Original Serigraph, 1973 for sale at Pamono

Description

The Word and the Sign is an original artwork realized by Rafael Alberti (El Puerto de Santa Mara 1902 El Puerto de Santa Mara 1999) in 1973. Excellent condition. The colors used are black and red. Rafael Alberti (El Puerto de Santa Mara 1902 El Puerto de Santa Mara 1999) A Spanish poet born in Puerto de Santa Mara in 1902, Rafael Alberti is one of the leading exponents of the Generation of 27 and one of Spains greatest XXth Century lyrical poets. After starting out as a painter, in 1925 he won the Premio Nacional de Literatura, for his collected poems, Marinero en tierra (Sailor on Land). Alberti started painting in 1917 and began writing poetry three years later. He was a close friend of artists such as Salvador Dal and Pablo Picasso, and poet Federico Garcia Lorca, and in the late 1920s published his dark, lyrical masterpiece Sobre los angeles (Concerning the Angels). Politics became increasingly important in Albertis life, forcing him into exile after Francisco Francos victory in the Spanish Civil War. In 1963 he moved to Rome together with his life-long companion, Mara Teresa Lon, and it was in Italy that influenced by the avant-garde movements of the XXth Century he became active as a painter and graphic artist while continuing to write poetry. After settling in a house with a studio in Anticoli Corrado, Alberti devoted himself to both forms of art, moving between poems devoted to nature and culture, and existential reflections suspended between the world of dreams and reality.