Menchu Gal - The channel
Biografía del Artista:
Menchu Gal (Irún 1919-San Sebastian 2008) initially trained in Irún with Gaspar Montes Iturrioz. She won the prize in the Competition for New Artists in Guipuzcoa in 1932 and before she had turned fifteen she moved to Paris, where she received classes from the master of cubism Amédée Ozenfant. There she discovered Matisse and Fauvism.
In the early 1940s she returned to the capital of Spain where she was part of the so-called Madrid School. She attended classes at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts. There she learned from teachers such as Arteta and Vázquez Díaz, but the Civil War of 1936 forced her to take refuge again in France. Menchu Gal was a prominent architect of the renewal of post-war Spanish painting and, valued and recognised in the difficult world of painting since her youth, in 1959 she became the first woman to be awarded the National Painting Prize.
The landscapes of La Mancha and her native region were her hallmark from then on and she established herself as one of the great artists of the post-war period. Her work also included portraits and still lifes, which were the subject of many exhibitions in museums and art centres around the world: the Gulbenkian Foundation in 1971, the Conde Duque Cultural Centre in 1990 and the Cultural Centre of the City of Madrid. She also participated in the Venice Biennale on three occasions.
Menchu Gal was ahead of her time. In 2005, the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa awarded her the Gold Medal of Gipuzkoa, the most important distinction granted by the Provincial Government. In this way, the painter from Irun became the first woman in the history of this medal. On that occasion, the deputy general Joxe Juan Gonzalez de Txabarri, highlighted her free spirit, "most of the time unorthodox. Independent, a precocious traveller, intellectually restless, Menchu Gal was a woman ahead of her time; linked to the most important painters, artists and avant-gardes of the 20th century
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