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André Masson and the Tauromaquia
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The cinematographic framing depicts a moment of high tension at a bullfight: the entrance of the picador. Toreros burst out of the frame like flames of flamboyant colour.
In 1937, in a Spain where political pressure was mounting, André Masson produced scenes of bullfighting with a strong symbolic and political charge. The ritual violence of the bullfight became a metaphor for the violence of the entire period.
Title: André Masson and the Tauromaquia
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The cinematographic framing depicts a moment of high tension at a bullfight: the entrance of the picador.
Toreros burst out of the frame like flames of flamboyant colour.
In 1937, in a Spain where political pressure was mounting, André Masson produced scenes of bullfighting with a strong symbolic and political charge.
The ritual violence of the bullfight became a metaphor for the violence of the entire period.
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