Descripción
Watercolor by Vicens Clarina. ”Clown”
total measurements; 42cm (16.5”) x 29cm. (11.5”)
Only work 30.5cm (12”) x 18cm. (7”)
The painter Clarina Vicens Alegre (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1938), daughter of a Spanish father, began studying painting at the age of eleven and at fourteen she entered the National School of Fine Arts of Montevideo, where she studied painting, sculpture and engraving. She was a founding member of the group El Cerro, she was a disciple of Edgardo Ribeiro and Augusto Torres, son of Joaquín Torres García.
In 1974 she won a scholarship from the French Government and moved to France, choosing the École des Beaux Arts et Architecture de Marseille. She has combined her artistic work with teaching, which she practiced for years in her hometown, in Barcelona and in Madrid.
He has exhibited his paintings and drawings in different cities in Uruguay, his first individual exhibition being in 1953 when he was only 15 years old, and in our country, since 1977, at the Es Molí gallery in Ibiza, doing so repeatedly in Madrid, Barcelona and Uruguay since then. .
Among the awards that support her resume are the Prize of the Illustrated Poem Salon in Montevideo, in the 1966, 1968 and 1972 editions, and the Prize of the Asturian Center of Madrid in its Semana de América in 1995.
Between 1956 and 1965, Clarina Vicens illustrated with her drawings the journalistic chronicles of the newspaper El Plata, about the stage events that were represented in Montevideo in those years.
It is still curious to note that works by Bertold Brecht, Tennessee Williams, García Lorca, Moliere, Bernard Shaw, O’Casey, Ionesco, Lope de Vega, Henry de Montherlant and a very long etcetera, are staged in the Uruguayan capital before than in many other European ones and that compositions such as Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss (1911), Carmina Burana by Orff (1936), Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck (1893) or Il Segreto di Susanna by Wolf-Ferrari, only accessible to the most elitists of that decade, which were only represented in New York and in the temples of European music, arrived in that small city of barely a million inhabitants.