Spanish Catalan painter. He studied briefly at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios in Barcelona in 1941 while working as a painter-decorator and from 1945 painted Expressionist-influenced rural landscapes, urban scenes, figures and even work tools. For a period of about five years from 1958 he adopted procedures from Art informel, such as his use of wooden supports partly destroyed by fire. His paintings of this period pay direct tribute to the chiaroscuro contrasts typical of Spanish Baroque art. In the mid-1960s Guinovart produced a series of very inventive paintings with collage elements indebted to Pop art, including mixed medium works such as Untitled (500*600 mm, 1964; Madrid, Fund. Juan March) and a series interpreting Picasso's Guernica. In his subsequent work he systematically explored different aspects of representation while continuing to use diverse and unconventional materials such as wheat, maize, stones, sand and glass. BIBLIOGRAPHY C. Rodriguez-Aguilera: Guinovart (Madrid, 1959) Guinovart: Obras desde 1946 (exh. cat. by C. Rodriguez-Aguilera, J. Benet Aurell and C.-A. Arean, Madrid, Ateneo, 1965) C. Rodriguez-Aguilera: Guinovart (Madrid, 1971) D. Giralt-Miracle: Guinovart (Barcelona, 1979) LOURDES CIRLOT

 

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