ANGELES SANTOS TORROELLA (Portbou, 1911 - Madrid, 2013). "Cupboard with grapes and mimosa".Oil on canvas.Signed in the lower right corner. Signed and titled on the back.Size: 55 x 46 cm; 77 x 68 cm (frame).In this piece the author breaks with the classical dimensions in favour of the creation of a work with a contemporary aesthetic which dynamises such a classical theme as the still life. However, she does not abandon the laws of perspective in their entirety, as she introduces a spatial sensation by structuring the image with successive planes that give it depth. With a loose, rapid and very vaporous brushstroke, the author configures an aesthetic game that oscillates between tradition and novelty, a groundbreaking technique combined with a classical theme, where she shapes a still life on different levels of height, in the same way as the Baroque master Sánchez Cotán.The work of Angeles Santos Torroella can be divided into three stages corresponding to the three cities where he lived, Valladolid, Madrid and Barcelona. In this case, this work corresponds to the last stage, which began in Barcelona. In which the artist, from 1969 onwards, began in the landscape genre, painting the cities of Paris, Barcelona, Cadaqués and Sitges through an aesthetic influenced by her reconciliation with the painter Emilio Grau.the sister of the poet and art critic Rafael Santos Torroella, she began drawing and painting at the age of fourteen during her school years at the boarding school of the Conceptionist Slaves of Seville. Two years later he moved with his parents to Valladolid, where he was taught by the Italian painter Cellino Perotti and painted, at the age of 18, "Un mundo", a large-scale oil painting depicting a strange surrealist planet, now in the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.After a couple of exhibitions in Valladolid, his participation in the IX Salón de Otoño in Madrid in 1929 increased his fame, resulting in the publication of articles about his painting (half expressionist, half surrealist) by intellectuals and critics such as Jorge Guillén, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Manuel Abril, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Federico García Lorca, Guillermo Díaz-Plaja, Joan Teixidor, among others. In 1931 she held a solo exhibition in Paris and in 1932 she took part in the collective exhibition of Iberian Artists in San Sebastián, Copenhagen and the French capital. The following year she was invited to exhibit in the group show at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh (USA) and in 1936 she was included in the Spanish pavilion at the Venice Biennale. ---------------------以下为软件翻译，仅供参考---------------------