{"id":321,"date":"2015-03-19T11:44:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T11:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centroguerrero.es\/?page_id=321"},"modified":"2017-02-23T09:14:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T09:14:29","slug":"biographical-note","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/centroguerrero.es\/en\/jose-guerrero\/biographical-note\/","title":{"rendered":"BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_section-b7dae9f05122e137cf0fc4ae4e00d02e\">\n.avia-section.av-av_section-b7dae9f05122e137cf0fc4ae4e00d02e{\nbackground-color:#f4f4f4;\nbackground-image:unset;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-av_section-b7dae9f05122e137cf0fc4ae4e00d02e main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap sidebar_right'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-321'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_full-9497bbf8bff73ea4c6992cc17fa9ec36\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_full-9497bbf8bff73ea4c6992cc17fa9ec36{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_full-9497bbf8bff73ea4c6992cc17fa9ec36 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-25268c0f70fcf6592f2e6edc2ffb52dc\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-25268c0f70fcf6592f2e6edc2ffb52dc{\npadding-bottom:20px;\nfont-size:33px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-25268c0f70fcf6592f2e6edc2ffb52dc .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n#top #wrap_all .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-25268c0f70fcf6592f2e6edc2ffb52dc .av-special-heading-tag{\nfont-size:33px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-25268c0f70fcf6592f2e6edc2ffb52dc .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n\n@media only screen and (min-width: 480px) and (max-width: 767px){ \n#top #wrap_all .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-25268c0f70fcf6592f2e6edc2ffb52dc .av-special-heading-tag{\nfont-size:0.8em;\n}\n}\n\n@media only screen and (max-width: 479px){ \n#top #wrap_all .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-25268c0f70fcf6592f2e6edc2ffb52dc .av-special-heading-tag{\nfont-size:0.8em;\n}\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-25268c0f70fcf6592f2e6edc2ffb52dc av-special-heading-h5 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  av-inherit-size'><h5 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE<\/h5><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>Jos\u00e9 Guerrero<\/strong> (Granada, 1914 \u2013 Barcelona, 1991). The details of Jos\u00e9 Guerrero\u2019s life are closely linked to his oeuvre, determined from the outset by the search for new creative horizons to take him far from the suffocating atmosphere he felt in post-war Spain. After the Civil War, he enrolled at the Madrid School of Fine Arts where he resumed the artistic education he had begun in Granada until, in the 1940s, in a devastated cultural panorama, a study grant allowed him to go to Paris. It was there he was able to see for himself the works of the historic avant-garde and the Paris School. This discovery shocked Guerrero to the extent that he decided to set off in search of modernity, leading an itinerant life through several European countries, before settling in New York with Roxanne Whittier Pollock. It was here that he began to create his first purely abstract pictures, using half biomorphic, half signic shapes, and to come into contact with the most outstanding and influential gallery owners and painters in what had become the capital of contemporary art, as well as home to exiled Spanish intellectuals.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_section-fb37fa88fbca848c7e29aff3fecdfcf1\">\n.avia-section.av-av_section-fb37fa88fbca848c7e29aff3fecdfcf1{\nbackground-color:#ffffff;\nbackground-image:unset;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_2'  class='avia-section av-av_section-fb37fa88fbca848c7e29aff3fecdfcf1 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_section  avia-builder-el-last  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap sidebar_right'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-321'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_third-9497bbf8bff73ea4c6992cc17fa9ec36\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_third-9497bbf8bff73ea4c6992cc17fa9ec36{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_third-9497bbf8bff73ea4c6992cc17fa9ec36 av_one_third  avia-builder-el-5  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52{\nheight:20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-6  el_before_av_image  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_image-a39ffea2453fad5df16cb6ff8d372307\">\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-a39ffea2453fad5df16cb6ff8d372307 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-a39ffea2453fad5df16cb6ff8d372307 .av-caption-image-overlay-bg{\nopacity:0.4;\nbackground-color:#000000;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-a39ffea2453fad5df16cb6ff8d372307 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-av_image-a39ffea2453fad5df16cb6ff8d372307 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last  noHover av-overlay-on-hover'   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><div class=\"av-image-caption-overlay\"><div class=\"av-caption-image-overlay-bg\"><\/div><div class=\"av-image-caption-overlay-position\"><div class=\"av-image-caption-overlay-center\"><p>Guerrero contemplando su obra reci\u00e9n concluida en la grabaci\u00f3n del programa Trazos de TVE, 1977<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image- avia-img-lazy-loading-not- avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/centroguerrero.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Biografia-19-684x1030.jpg\" alt='' title=''   itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_two_third-9c1d454dc06f7247226bc4e8f931daae\">\n.flex_column.av-av_two_third-9c1d454dc06f7247226bc4e8f931daae{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_two_third-9c1d454dc06f7247226bc4e8f931daae av_two_third  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>It was in New York, therefore, that he found his place in the world of art and gradually discovered his own language, as he became part of the gestural art close to the first generation of the New York School, which brought him fully into the American art scene.<\/p>\n<p>In the mid seventies, Guerrero\u2019s first one-man exhibition at the Juana Mord\u00f3 gallery, his family\u2019s settling in Spain for three years, and his friendship with the informalists of the Cuenca group all marked the definitive reencounter with his native country. This brought about a creative period characterized by the energy of colours spread over juxtaposed areas and defined by the borders where they met. Back in the USA, the 1970s were to see the beginning of a new series of highly constructed, synthetic works known as the <em>Phosphorescences<\/em>, which gradually gave way to a fully mature syntax characterized by shapes such as the oval or the arch (a sort of Guerrero ideogram with biographical reminiscences), sagely drawn lines and throbbing boundaries between sheets of colour. In Spain, Guerrero\u2019s presence in social and artistic media grew noticeably stronger, while he also acted as a stimulating master to upcoming artists. This all materialized in the early eighties in the form of renewed activity and numerous acknowledgments of his career. During the last years of his life he created work exuding wisdom and bursting with light, fully resolving the conflicts this element had gone through in the course of the artist\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_2'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-321'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7002,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-321","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centroguerrero.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centroguerrero.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centroguerrero.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centroguerrero.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centroguerrero.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centroguerrero.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centroguerrero.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centroguerrero.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}