Los frailes del Museo de Navarra en el discurso artístico internacional [The frailes of the Museum of Navarre in the international art discourse]

Abstract

The Navarre-born José Joaquín Fraile Mariñelarena (1930-1998) was a painter who renewed the painting of Álava in the second half of the twentieth century, whose artistic work develops from the post-impressionist and expressionist figuration to move from 1963 towards the informalism, constructivism (sculpture-paintings neodadás, light and sound boxes under the influence op-art and kinetic art) and abstract expressionism. In all his developmental stages he remained in line with international trends and, in particular, with the painting of Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Pollock and Clyfford Still, using techniques such as collage of Schwitters and readymade employed by Picasso and Duchamp, without underestimating the influence of Viola, a member of El Paso. He promoted the group Orain in the Basque Art Movement of Painting, which, along with other Basque groups, wanted to show in Pamplona (January 1967) their full creative potential, but failed because of various reasons.