Valladolid Simancas Group, Landscape with Dovecotes Félix Cuadrado-Lomas, 1980s, Oil on Canvas

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Oil on canvas “Landscape with Dovecotes” by Félix Cuadrado-Lomas - Valladolid, Simancas Group

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A magnificent oil on canvas by Félix Cuadrado-Lomas, an artist belonging to the Simancas Group. The work perfectly encapsulates Cuadrado-Lomas's artistic universe through a Castilian landscape, employing synthetic forms that approach abstraction without losing their figurative character. In this language, the bold line structures the composition and defines its parts. The Castilian countryside, a prominent theme for the Simancas Group, is here reduced to a structure of contrasting chromatic planes. This composition departs from Cuadrado-Lomas's more typical works and introduces interesting visual tensions. The various dovecotes dot the composition and, along with the woody trees, maintain a connection to visible reality, preventing the representation from veering into complete abstraction. Cuadrado-Lomas's impasto brushstrokes, a characteristic feature of his style, are clearly visible.

Félix Cuadrado-Lomas was one of the leading members of the Simancas Group, an artists' collective active between 1967 and 2007, which revitalized the art scene of Castile and León in the mid-20th century. Its origins lie in the meetings and discussions that, from the early 1960s, took place around the Relieve Bookstore in Valladolid, developing more as a circle of friendship and intellectual exchange than as an artistic movement bound by a shared aesthetic doctrine.

Other prominent members included Jorge Vidal, Domingo Criado, Gabino Gaona, and Fernando Santiago (Jacobo). Although their approaches and styles were diverse, they shared a desire for renewal and an openness to the languages ​​of modernity, with a particular emphasis on Expressionism. The Castilian landscape became one of their main areas of research, approached from a contemporary perspective that allowed them to transcend its merely descriptive representation, transforming it into a space of synthesis, emotion, and artistic expression.

• Category: Painting

• Technique: Oil on canvas

• Title: "Landscape with Dovecotes"

• Artist: Félix Cuadrado-Lomas. Simancas Group

• Signed: Signed lower right “Cuadrado-Lomas”

• School: Simancas Group

• Period: Last third of the 20th century

• Country of origin: Spain

• Dimensions: Framed: 67 x 74 x 5 cm; unframed: 50 x 58 cm

• Condition: Good condition considering its age and use.

• Provenance: Private collection in Valladolid

Bibliography

Lomas Cuadrado, Félix. Cuadrado Lomas. Junta de Castilla y León, 2003.

Amón, Santiago. Cuadrado-Lomas, Painter. Caja de Ahorros Provincial de Valladolid, 1983.

Simancas Group. Landscape – Color – Expression. Exhibition Catalog, Patio Herreriano Museum. Villalar Foundation, Castile and León, 2011. See less