Pedro Angel González

the long version

"Excellent study elaborates on a critical analysis of the work of González, a singular figure in Venezuelan 20th-century modernism whose work is characterized by his dedication to landscape painting. Throughout his life, he maintained a constant insecurity toward his own work, thinking it was anachronistic and out of the mainstream of European modernism, which he confessed he did not understand. He stopped painting for 10 years, then returned to his craft in 1936 to realize his best compositions in a regional, realistic style. He established his own vision of the Venezuelan landscape in a style that can be characterized as nationalist, in tune with the dominant direction taken by Latin American art at the time. Beautifully illustrated in color, with autobiographical texts and a selected bibliography"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.