Eduardo Arroyo was a painter, sculptor, illustrator, printmaker, scenographer, narrator and essay writer. In the 1960s he began his career as a painter in the figurative style in an artistic context dominated by abstraction and expressionism. His critical attitude towards the dictatorship led him to go into exile in Paris, where he lived for about two decades, during which he became recognized across Europe. He mainly worked within the bitingly iconoclastic modes of Pop Art of a political nature, although with his own language, of unarguable visual intensity. One of the recurring motifs in his paintings was the demythification of famous characters and powerful personalities. This was the case with Winston Churchill peintre, where the British leader, renowned for his role during the Second World War, relaxes painting plein air, like a simple Sunday artist. After the death of Franco, Arroyo returned to Spain and his work became well-known in the early 1980s, as he eventually rose to be one of the leading figures of contemporary Spanish art. He won the Spanish National Award for Visual Arts (1982) and the Golden Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (2000).
List of artworks
Winston Churchill peintre , 1969
Murcia-Hamburg , 1978
Noche española , 1985
Winston Churchill peintre , 1969
Murcia-Hamburg , 1978
Noche española , 1985
Twenty Faces and Three Crowds
In Three Acts
The third and final act goes into the great iconographic motive of art, the element that questions the chronologies and brings to this day the verisimilitude of the whole...
On paper
Josep Suñol Collection
Josep Suñol’s fascination with work on paper is strikingly captured by the fact that over thirty per cent of the pieces in his contemporary art collection are done on...
Continuum
Josep Suñol Collection
A journey through the last ninety years of artistic creation and offers an excellent platform for thinking about 20th-century...
1915 – 1995
Col·lecció Josep Suñol
Owing to the number of works in the collection, the first show included a selection of the most representative pieces dating from 1915 to...
5th Anniversary
Josep Suñol's Collection
A fresh insight into his collection that can help us understand the function of art in...
FACE(S)
A project by Susoespai
FACE(S) presents a selection of works done by the people participating in the workshops of Susoespai as part of the visits to the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds...
Rosa Romero: Mira-mira
Performance
At the end of the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds, the Fundació Suñol is organizing an artistic performance in collaboration with La Caldera les...
Per la cara!
Taller familiar
Amb motiu de l’exposició Vint rostres i tres multituds, el darrer acte del tríptic expositiu En tres actes, us proposem gaudir d’un taller per a tota la família on repensarem l’ús...
Guided tour
Walking with the River. Eva Lootz
We invite you to visit the exhibition Walking with the River by the artist Eva Lootz with the help of a member of the educational team of the Fundació...
Dialogue with Pol Guash and Valentín Romà
Online video
On the occasion of the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds, we invite the writer Pol Guasch to have a dialogue with the co-curator of the exhibition series In...
Guided tour with Valentín Roma to Twenty Faces and Three Crowds
On the occasion of the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds, the last chapter of the thryptic In Three Acts,we suggest you visit the exhibition with Valentín...
Guided tour to Twenty Faces and Three Crowds
Festa Major de Les Corts
Fundació Suñol organizes a visit to the exhibtion Twenty Faces and Three Crowds conducted by the fundation’s...
Les Escales
In 1976 Josep Suñol moved his residence to Les Escales, an address specially designed to house his growing collection of works of...
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