Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
The Artistic Evolution of Luis Feito Luis Feito began his formal training at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. While his early work was characterized by a figurative style, his discovery of Cubism led him toward a nonfigurative approach, resulting in his first solo show of abstract works in 1954. After traveling to Paris on a grant from the French government, he resided there for nearly 25 years. During th
is period, he became acquainted with several Art Informel artists and was introduced to automatism, which led him to incorporate materials such as sand into his paintings. As a founding member of the Madrid-based group El Paso, Feito contributed to an art movement that emphasized an antiacademic and innovative style. His work from the late 1950s and early 1960s often utilized a subdued palette of blacks, grays, whites, and ochers, la…