Águeda ASENJO BEJARANO

Original title: Lo corpóreo y lo etéreo: la abstracción del color en Fra Angélico

Published in Mirabilia Journal 31 (2020/2)  

Keywords: Abstraction, Color, Fra Angelico, Marble, Originality, Plasticity, Quattrocento.

With this study I intend to carry out a plastic and pictorial analysis of the work of the famous quattrocentist author Fra Angelico from the details that the Italian painter captured in his works where he combined colors in a totally heterogeneous way as watercolor surfaces, which recall and emulate to small abstract paintings generating an interconnection between the author’s innate creativity and his context. These fragments are like fields soaked in water and the colors flashes of pigment that spread across the canvas. He experimented with color and its possibilities within the painting, since although many authors define it as marbles, its originality and uniqueness are undoubted.