Tomás Barros Pardo (Toledo, 1922 – La Coruña, 1986) was a Spanish painter and author.
Painter, poet, composer, author of plays, essays and one novel, occasional reporter, PhD in Fine Arts, and member of the
Royal Galician Academy
The Royal Galician Academy ( gl, Real Academia Galega, RAG) is an institution dedicated to the study of Galician culture and especially the Galician language; it promulgates norms of grammar, spelling, and vocabulary and works to promote the la ...
, Tomás Barros was one of the most prolific intellectuals among the
Galician writers that stayed in
Francoist Spain
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. As with many of this group of non-exiled artists and intellectuals, he shared concerns and collaborations with the exiled ones, as would be the case with
Luis Seoane
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,
Rafael Dieste
Rafael Dieste (Rianxo, 1899–Santiago de Compostela, 1981) was a Galician poet, philosopher, short-story writer, and dramatist writing mostly in Galician language, but also in Spanish language. He began to write with the encouragement of another ...
,
Vicente Aleixandre
Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (; 26 April 1898 – 14 December 1984) was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville. Aleixandre received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977 "for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man ...
,
Celso Emilio Ferreiro
Celso Emilio Ferreiro Míguez (1912–1979) was a Galicianist activist, writer, poet, and political journalist.
Early years
Ferreiro was born in Celanova, into a well-off Galicianist family. In 1932, at the age of twenty, he created the ''Moced ...
and his cousin
Isaac Díaz Pardo
Isaac Díaz Pardo (22 August 1920 – 5 January 2012) was a Galicia (Spain), Galician intellectual strongly attached to both Sargadelos and Cerámica do Castro.
He was an intellectual Galicianism (Galicia), galicianist, painter, ceramist, desig ...
Biography
Accidentally born in
Toledo in 1922, his family returned in 1929 to their city of origin,
Ferrol, where he would spend his childhood and early youth. After graduating in Education in
Santiago de Compostela
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, he moved to
Madrid
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to graduate in fine arts at the
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
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. For over 30 years he worked as a professor in technical drawing and plastic expression in
A Coruña
A Coruña (; es, La Coruña ; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. A Coruña is the most populated city in Galicia and the second most populated municipality in the autonomous community and s ...
, where he combined it with artistic creation until his death.
His literary activity developed from the early 1950s, with his first published work, "Gárgolas", in 1950, and the foundation in 1952 of the poetry and literary magazine ''Aturuxo'', along with Mario Couceiro and Miguel C. Vidal. In the 1950s, Barros published several poetic works and drama plays, as well as shorter essays and articles in newspapers and magazines. In 1975 he founded with Luz Pozo Garza the poetry magazine ''Nordés'', and in 1973 was awarded with the International Poetry Award of the Circle Latin American Writers and Poets (CEPI) of New York. Until his death in 1986, his literary production included several theater plays and many newspaper and magazine collaborations.
His plastic production,
increasingly abstract from the 1960s, is characterized by a concern with "rhythm, color and shape", as Barros himself developed in many of his artistic essays.
Selected published works
Poetry in Galician language
*''Berro diante da morte'', 1963
*''Abraio'', 1978
*''Vieiro de señardade'', 1987
Poetry in Spanish language
*''Gárgola'', 1950
*''La estrella y el cocodrilo'', 1957
*''El helecho en el tejado'', 1957
*''A imagen y semejanza'', 1973
*''Los ojos de la colina'', 1973
Theater plays
*''A casa abandoada'', 1985
*''Fausto, Margarida e Aqueloutro'', 1993
*''Panteón familiar'', 1956
*''Tres pezas de teatro'', 1981
Novel
*''El Rastro Invisible'', 1990, Edicións do Castro (novela)
Essay
*''Los procesos abstractivos del arte contemporáneo'', 1965
*''Sobre el origen de la corteza en los astros'', 1973
Bibliography in English
*
IRIZARRY, Estelle, in
Writer-Painters of 20th Century Spain, 2010
*
McDERMID, Paul:
Tomás Barros and his Faust: Love, Mystery and Synchronicity', en ''Galicia 21'', 2011
References
External links
Profileat the
University of A Coruña
The University of A Coruña ( gl, Universidade da Coruña) is a Spanish public university located in the city of A Coruña, Galicia. Established in 1989, university departments are divided between two primary campuses in A Coruña and nearby Fer ...
Virtual Library
Profile at the Universal Galician Encyclopaedia
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1922 births
1986 deaths
Painters from Galicia (Spain)
Galician poets
Spanish male writers