Modest Cuixart is a renowned artist from the second half of the twentieth century. He co-founded the Dau al Set group and is heir to the surrealism in terms of his defence of freedom as a determining condition of the artist’s vital and creative approach. While his work was wholly inserted into informalism until the late seventies, his series of dolls became the preamble to a new period that led him to research the human body. Most notable among the many awards he garnered throughout his career are the First International Painting Prize at the V Biennial in São Paulo and the Abstract Painting Prize in Lausanne, both in 1959. He received the Creu de Sant Jordi, awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya, in 1983, and the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes, from the Spanish Ministry of Culture, in 1999.
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