untitled (Rest in Peace), Rafael Coronel

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Rafael Coronel, untitled (Rest in Peace)
Rafael Coronel, untitled (Rest in Peace)
Rafael Coronel
untitled (Rest in Peace)
circa 1965
Rafael Coronel
born 1932
untitled (Rest in Peace), circa 1965
Where object was made: Mexico
Material/technique: laid paper; pencil
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 32.3 x 49.6 cm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 12 11/16 x 19 1/2 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 18 x 23 1/2 in
Credit line: Gift of Elizabeth Schultz
Accession number: 2004.0180
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: “Selecciones: Mexican Art from the Collection,” Nov-2005, Kate Meyer The Spencer Museum is pleased to present four new gifts from Elizabeth Schultz, all created by Mexican artist Rafael Coronel in the 1960s. Coronel’s paintings and drawings are shown here alongside highlights from the museum’s collection of twentieth-century Mexican works on paper. This display invites the viewer to consider Coronel’s connections to works by other Mexican artists. Can affinities be found between Coronel’s imagery and the iconography employed by his contemporaries and predecessors? Or, does Coronel’s modernism stand out, perhaps suggesting global, rather than national, comparisons? The phrase “expressive realism,” is often used as to describe Coronel’s work. In the case of this drawing, “expressive realism” might well describe the way that the artist carefully renders the figure’s face and hands, but indicates the rest of the body with only a few quick, gestural lines. These sparse marks, and the absence of a more definitive outline, add a sense of fragility to the image.