26. Carmen Laffón

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26. Carmen Laffón

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Born in Seville in 1934. Spanish realism painter of the second half of the twentieth century. The central themes she creates are landscapes, still lifes and portraits, always creating intimate atmospheres that induce emotion. The effects of light and color in her landscapes stand out, being compared to the paintings of the Parisian artist, Camille Corot.

From the seventies onwards, she shows a clear tendency towards horizontal compositions, and depicts landscapes that are part of her daily life. In her series Vistas del Coto, she depicts the views from her studio in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, in front of the Coto de Doñana National Park. The work that belongs to the museum reflects the features of her landscape line. The critic and curator María de Corral says about her work:

"paints inner and outer emotions, not stated, but suggested."

Similarly, the art critic Juan Bosco Díaz Urmeneta, on the occasion of Laffón's exhibition called The Landscape and the place, wrote this of her work:

"the absence of narrative details and the arrangement of air, water, and earth indicate that the protagonist of these paintings is the incessant flow of nature that generates forms, but is persistently silent."