Large fruits with soft and rounded shapes. Dry, they are used in containers here but also on other continents. The calabashes are at the heart of nature, of Africa and their organic reality inspired Cécile Halley des Fontaines.
Smara, a city housed in the heart of the Western Sahara desert. A Moroccan city created in 1898 on a territory then called ‘Spanish West Africa’. During the 20th century, Moroccan and Spanish dominations alternated…
ncredible realism … far from the amplified fantasized oriental dream. Josep Tapiró i Baró has, throughout his life, worked in depth on the Africanist subject by painting mainly portraits of citizens of Tangiers in Morocco…
From these two trips to Morocco are born many paintings by Mariano Fortuny, halfway between impressionism and the pictorial movement but deeply rooted in a realistic orientalism…
