{"id":8377,"date":"2020-04-03T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/?p=8377"},"modified":"2020-04-10T14:23:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T13:23:19","slug":"some-positive-energy-during-confinement-color-takes-flight-in-roberta-gonzalezs-late-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/2020\/04\/some-positive-energy-during-confinement-color-takes-flight-in-roberta-gonzalezs-late-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive vibes for confinement: Color takes flight in Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez&#8217;s late work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"945\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R.-Gonzalez-Ils-e\u0301taient-plus-de-deux.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8364\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R.-Gonzalez-Ils-e\u0301taient-plus-de-deux.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/2020\/04\/03\/energie-positive-en-periode-de-confinement-lenvol-colore-de-roberta-gonzalez\/r-gonzalez-ils-etaient-plus-de-deux\/\" class=\"wp-image-8364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R.-Gonzalez-Ils-e\u0301taient-plus-de-deux.png 945w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R.-Gonzalez-Ils-e\u0301taient-plus-de-deux-300x102.png 300w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R.-Gonzalez-Ils-e\u0301taient-plus-de-deux-768x260.png 768w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R.-Gonzalez-Ils-e\u0301taient-plus-de-deux-600x203.png 600w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R.-Gonzalez-Ils-e\u0301taient-plus-de-deux-145x49.png 145w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R.-Gonzalez-Ils-e\u0301taient-plus-de-deux-24x8.png 24w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R.-Gonzalez-Ils-e\u0301taient-plus-de-deux-36x12.png 36w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R.-Gonzalez-Ils-e\u0301taient-plus-de-deux-48x16.png 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">R. Gonzalez, <em>Ils e\u0301taient plus de deux (And then there were two)<\/em>, 1971<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez (1909-1976), Julio Gonz\u00e1lez&#8217;s only daughter, was a painter and draftswoman.\u00a0 After a training and early period strongly influenced by her father&#8217;s work,\u00a0 Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez begins to liberate and affirm herself in the postwar period.\u00a0 Between the 1950s and the 1970s, her work undergoes a remarquable transformation.\u00a0 Though her postwar paintings are quite dark and melancholic, starting in the late 1960s, color takes flight.<\/p>\n<p>Deeply affected by the hardships of the war years and by her father&#8217;s unexpected death in 1942, her postwar work is filled with pensive and melancholic women, rendered in dark colors, like\u00a0<em>Jeune fille angoiss\u00e9e <\/em>(<em>Young girl in anguish, <\/em>1947).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"809\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jeune-fille-angoisse\u0301e-1947-809x1024.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8350\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jeune-fille-angoisse\u0301e-1947.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/2012\/04\/03\/roberta-gonzalez-le-regard-de-la-memoire-au-musee-arts-et-histoire-de-bormes-les-mimosas-23-aout-au-14-octobre-2012\/jeune-fille-angoissee-1947-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-8350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jeune-fille-angoisse\u0301e-1947-809x1024.png 809w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jeune-fille-angoisse\u0301e-1947-237x300.png 237w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jeune-fille-angoisse\u0301e-1947-768x972.png 768w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jeune-fille-angoisse\u0301e-1947-600x759.png 600w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jeune-fille-angoisse\u0301e-1947-145x183.png 145w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jeune-fille-angoisse\u0301e-1947-19x24.png 19w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jeune-fille-angoisse\u0301e-1947-28x36.png 28w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jeune-fille-angoisse\u0301e-1947-38x48.png 38w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jeune-fille-angoisse\u0301e-1947.png 943w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 809px) 100vw, 809px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">R. Gonz\u00e1lez, <em>Jeune fille angoiss\u00e9e <\/em><br><em>(Young girl in anguish)<\/em>, 1947<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"481\" height=\"795\" src=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sans-titre-1952.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8263\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sans-titre-1952.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/sans-titre-1952\/\" class=\"wp-image-8263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sans-titre-1952.png 481w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sans-titre-1952-182x300.png 182w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sans-titre-1952-127x210.png 127w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sans-titre-1952-15x24.png 15w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sans-titre-1952-22x36.png 22w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sans-titre-1952-29x48.png 29w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez, <em>Sans titre<\/em>,1952<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The, she embarks on inventing her own plastic vocabulary, which is an essential component of her mature style.&nbsp; <em>Sans titre <\/em>(1952), composed of figurative signs (birds, female nudes, eyes, masks) and abstract geometric forms, floating in an undefined space, is an example.&nbsp; The monochrome palette is typical of her work during these years, as other works like <em>Soleil de minuit <\/em>(<em>Midnight Sun<\/em>, 1952) confirm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"943\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R.-Gonzalez-Soleil-de-minuit-1952.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R.-Gonzalez-Soleil-de-minuit-1952.png 943w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R.-Gonzalez-Soleil-de-minuit-1952-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R.-Gonzalez-Soleil-de-minuit-1952-768x550.png 768w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R.-Gonzalez-Soleil-de-minuit-1952-600x429.png 600w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R.-Gonzalez-Soleil-de-minuit-1952-145x104.png 145w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R.-Gonzalez-Soleil-de-minuit-1952-24x17.png 24w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R.-Gonzalez-Soleil-de-minuit-1952-36x26.png 36w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R.-Gonzalez-Soleil-de-minuit-1952-48x34.png 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 943px) 100vw, 943px\" \/><figcaption>Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez, <em>Soleil de minuit (Midnight Sun), <\/em>1952<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She records her state of mind regarding her pictorial experiments in her unpublished diary.&nbsp; She often brings up her quest for color.&nbsp; She writes on August 24, 1953: &#8220;My paintings are dark, monochromatic, and yet I&#8217;m so thirsty for color!&#8221; (<em>Mes toiles sont sombres, monochromes, et cependant combien j\u2019ai soif de couleurs !<\/em> ).&nbsp; Several months earlier (March 2, 1953), she had already mentioned her desire for &#8220;explosive lines&#8221; (<em>de lignes explosives<\/em>), and wondered &#8220;where all of the cries of joy had gone&#8221; (O<em>\u00f9 s\u2019en sont all\u00e9s tous ces cris de joie ?<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It takes her another fifteen years, but by the end of the 1960s, she will finally succeed.&nbsp; Her late works are multi-hued and cheerful.&nbsp; They are populated by masks, profiles, suns and birds, placed within an undefined space, which pulsates with bright colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Roberta-Gonza\u0301lez-Sens-obligatoire-no.-1-1969.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Roberta-Gonza\u0301lez-Sens-obligatoire-no.-1-1969.png 625w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Roberta-Gonza\u0301lez-Sens-obligatoire-no.-1-1969-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Roberta-Gonza\u0301lez-Sens-obligatoire-no.-1-1969-600x484.png 600w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Roberta-Gonza\u0301lez-Sens-obligatoire-no.-1-1969-145x117.png 145w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Roberta-Gonza\u0301lez-Sens-obligatoire-no.-1-1969-24x19.png 24w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Roberta-Gonza\u0301lez-Sens-obligatoire-no.-1-1969-36x29.png 36w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Roberta-Gonza\u0301lez-Sens-obligatoire-no.-1-1969-48x39.png 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption>Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez, <em>Sens obligatoire no. 1<\/em>, 1969<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Birds are frequent subjects in Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez&#8217;s paintings and drawings; as her career progresses, they tend to be symbols of joy.\u00a0 It is hardly surprising that color takes flight in her work thanks to birds, considering the fact that Roberta was an avid animal lover, and defender of animal rights.\u00a0 She even claimed to prefer animals to humans at times!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"945\" height=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roberta-Gonzalez-Ils-brillent-pour-tous-1972-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roberta-Gonzalez-Ils-brillent-pour-tous-1972-1.png 945w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roberta-Gonzalez-Ils-brillent-pour-tous-1972-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roberta-Gonzalez-Ils-brillent-pour-tous-1972-1-768x577.png 768w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roberta-Gonzalez-Ils-brillent-pour-tous-1972-1-600x451.png 600w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roberta-Gonzalez-Ils-brillent-pour-tous-1972-1-145x109.png 145w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roberta-Gonzalez-Ils-brillent-pour-tous-1972-1-24x18.png 24w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roberta-Gonzalez-Ils-brillent-pour-tous-1972-1-36x27.png 36w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roberta-Gonzalez-Ils-brillent-pour-tous-1972-1-48x36.png 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" \/><figcaption>Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez, <em>Ils brillent pour tous<\/em>, 1972<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Her mature paintings, full of color and energy, give off a sense of positive energy.  Roberta Gonzalez, known for her sense of humor and sparkling personality, finally finds the &#8220;cries of joy&#8221; that she had been searching for towards the end of her career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roberta-Gonzalez-anne\u0301es-1960-close-up-770x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roberta-Gonzalez-anne\u0301es-1960-close-up-770x1024.png 770w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roberta-Gonzalez-anne\u0301es-1960-close-up-226x300.png 226w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roberta-Gonzalez-anne\u0301es-1960-close-up-768x1022.png 768w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roberta-Gonzalez-anne\u0301es-1960-close-up-600x798.png 600w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roberta-Gonzalez-anne\u0301es-1960-close-up-145x193.png 145w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roberta-Gonzalez-anne\u0301es-1960-close-up-18x24.png 18w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roberta-Gonzalez-anne\u0301es-1960-close-up-27x36.png 27w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roberta-Gonzalez-anne\u0301es-1960-close-up-36x48.png 36w, https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roberta-Gonzalez-anne\u0301es-1960-close-up.png 781w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><figcaption>Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez, around 1971<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez (1909-1976), Julio Gonz\u00e1lez&#8217;s only daughter, was a painter and draftswoman.\u00a0 After a training and early period strongly influenced by her father&#8217;s work,\u00a0 Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez begins to liberate and affirm herself in the postwar period.\u00a0 Between the 1950s and the 1970s, her work undergoes a remarquable transformation.\u00a0 Though her postwar paintings are quite dark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[697],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evenements-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8377"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8382,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377\/revisions\/8382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}