Alfonso Sucasasas

ALFONSO SUCASAS (Goiás, 1940-Ferreira,2012).
"Veciños de Bailás. Lalín, 1999-2000.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 50 x 60 cm; 68 x 78 cm (frame).

Alfonso Sucasas went beyond the classic folkloric typism in his representation of characters from Galician villages, which is demonstrated in this painting in which he represents three neighbors of Lalín, resolved with emphatic brushstrokes and an expressionist language of thick stroke and contrasted palette.

One of the leading figures of Galician painting and considered one of the last classics of this discipline in Galicia, he has received numerous posthumous tributes, such as the retrospective at the Novacaixagalicia cultural center in Vigo. An unmistakable style and personal world that revolves around Galician roots but away from folklorisms determined his work. He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts. Later he continued his training in Madrid and traveled to Venezuela and Brazil, where he lived for several years. In 1968 he returned definitively to Galicia and developed his career as a painter, first with a socio-political painting to later focus on the interpretation of rural Galicia through a gestural and expressionist painting.