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拍品專文
We are grateful to Prof. Juan Carlos Pereda at the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City for his assistance in cataloguing the present painting. This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist under archive number 970- O-14.
At the end of World War II, Rufino Tamayo focused his attention on science and technology, subjects that he captured with great beauty in paintings from the period. The Astronomer, painted in 1953, foreshadowed a body of work that appeared a decade later and dealt with cosmological subjects.
These works are open-ended; they do not narrate or describe, but rather act as signifiers or aesthetic metaphors of a moment in history in the evolution of the human creative spirit. Informed by the writings of philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, Tamayo meditated on Art as man's greatest achievement, in counterpoint with a technological world which placed the machine as the focus of interest, thought and action.
In a similar vein, Dos personajes en un interior painted in 1970, depicts a mysterious realm of warm and luminous color; a haunting scene inhabited by machine-like figures that seem to interact as human characters. Lines of light and colors that evoke sound fill the space, like a modern epiphany that embraces technology as an object of beauty, harmony and modernity.
Juan Carlos Pereda
Mexico, September 2005
At the end of World War II, Rufino Tamayo focused his attention on science and technology, subjects that he captured with great beauty in paintings from the period. The Astronomer, painted in 1953, foreshadowed a body of work that appeared a decade later and dealt with cosmological subjects.
These works are open-ended; they do not narrate or describe, but rather act as signifiers or aesthetic metaphors of a moment in history in the evolution of the human creative spirit. Informed by the writings of philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, Tamayo meditated on Art as man's greatest achievement, in counterpoint with a technological world which placed the machine as the focus of interest, thought and action.
In a similar vein, Dos personajes en un interior painted in 1970, depicts a mysterious realm of warm and luminous color; a haunting scene inhabited by machine-like figures that seem to interact as human characters. Lines of light and colors that evoke sound fill the space, like a modern epiphany that embraces technology as an object of beauty, harmony and modernity.
Juan Carlos Pereda
Mexico, September 2005