{"id":3840,"date":"2014-03-12T14:33:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T13:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/the-artist\/"},"modified":"2018-03-30T13:28:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T12:28:31","slug":"the-artist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/the-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"The artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Julio Gonzalez, Man of Iron. <\/strong>A painter, sculptor and architect of form and light, Julio <strong>Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong> (1876-1942) figures among the greatest artist of his time: Braque, Miro, Mondrian and of course \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pablo_Picasso\">Picasso<\/a>, his friend and alter ego in painting, with whom he will explore form and materials. Barcelonan by birth, Parisian by heart and adoption, <strong>Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong> was this &#8220;truly astounding artist, endowed with a dazzling imagination,&#8221; who casts, hammers and sculpts iron and copper, gold, bronze and silver. A master at the peak of his art, celebrated by the greatest &#8211; evidenced by his exhibitions in the major art galleries of the first half of the 20th century -, Julio Gonzalez, uncompromising artist, has never forgotten the values and demands of working with his hands. With his sculptures &#8211; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stedelijk.nl\/kunstwerk\/16628-la-montserrat\">Montserrat<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivam.es\/exposiciones\/julio-gonzalez\/\">Woman with mirror Head <\/a>&#8230;, he revived the age of iron, born thousands of years ago and reinvented in his expert\u00a0hands. For this goldsmith of art, &#8220;sculptor of the void,&#8221; space becomes a material just as much as the material itself. His sculptures are made of iron and cast space &#8230; Sculptor, designer and painter, <a href=\"http:\/\/Julio Gonz\u00e1lez\">Julio Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a> is a complete artist, as demanding of himself as of his audience. &#8220;Each, with his abilities, must try to raise himself up to the level of the work of art. This must be insisted upon, even many times. That&#8217;s what I have often done &#8230;&#8221; His works &#8211; pastels and watercolors, gouaches, paintings, and of course his sculptures &#8211; stand as a testament to the commitment of this immense artist, this man, simple and modest, &#8220;to fertile exploration.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br class=\"xliff-newline\" \/><br class=\"xliff-newline\" \/><a id=\"homepage-link\" title=\"Biographie\" href=\"\/?p=337\">Biography<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julio Gonzalez, Man of Iron. A painter, sculptor and architect of form and light, Julio Gonz\u00e1lez (1876-1942) figures among the greatest artist of his time: Braque, Miro, Mondrian and of course \u00a0Picasso, his friend and alter ego in painting, with whom he will explore form and materials. Barcelonan by birth, Parisian by heart and adoption, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-a-homepage.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3840","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5874,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3840\/revisions\/5874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}