CRUISE. Vanger. Hysteria. Expressionism. Private collection.
blind sailor. Vanger. Hysteria. Realism. Mixed media on paper. Museum of Pontevedra.
Manuel Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao (Rianxo, Spain, in 1886, Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1950) fue a politician, writer, painter, doctor and dibujante gallego as one of them priests of Galician nationalism. He studied medicine and said: Fixenme doctor of love for my father, not I exercise the profession of love for humanity ("Me hice doctor for the love of my Father; ejerzo in the profession of love for humanity").
Son of Manuel Rodriguez God, fisherman, and Joaquina Castelao Genma. Manuel emigrated to Argentina after three months of the birth of Daniel, and in the course of 1895 also emigrated Joaquina, leading to small Alfonso, to go live with her husband in Bernasconi, in Pampa. There he lived until 1900 and as Castelao told himself discovered the value of the comic reading Faces and Masks.
studied medicine at the University of Santiago de Compostela. During his years in college springs his interest in drawing and painting and especially for the cartoon. In 1908 he exhibited his drawings in Madrid and began to work with Life magazine Galicia. Between 1909 and 1910 makes a doctoral course in Madrid and participates in the Third National Exhibition of Comedians and works as an illustrator for The Weekly Tale. In 1910 in Santiago specializes in obstetrics and finish Rianxo is installed in your home. During this period co-founded the weekly El Barbero Municipal (1910-1914), in which he wrote attacking the Galician cacique system, entering local politics within the local Conservative Party in a line Maurista.
gives its first conference in March 1911, in Vigo, talking about the cartoon and over the years had exhibitions of his cartoons in several Galician cities. In 1912 he joined the movement Galician Action and 19 October the same year he married Virxinia Pereira. During this period contributed to many periodicals such as The Liberal, The Great Fool, The Enlightenment Gallega and Asturiana, Mi Tierra, Swabia, La Voz de Galicia Buenos Aires, which helped popularize his cartoons.
A detachment leaves him blind in 1914, but an operation restores the sight. In 1915 he participated in the Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid, which gets high praise from critics. In 1916 obtained a position in opposition to the delegation of Pontevedra Geographic and Statistical Institute in that year was one of the founders of the local branch of the Irmandades da Fala. In 1918 he began collaborating with the Madrid daily El Sol
With Vicente Risco, Otero Pedrayo and others founded the journal Nós ("We"), which flowed around the political and cultural life of Galicia between 1920 and 1936. In January 1921, thanks to a grant from the Board of Advanced Studies, traveled to France, Belgium and Germany to study the art of these countries. The result of that trip was the day he wrote and published in the journal Nós part and appeared in book form in 1977 with Journal title 1921. In 1926 he was named Academic of the Royal Academy of Galicia.
The January 3, 1928 death of his son Alfonso of fourteen, and that year went to Britain with his wife on a study trip to study Breton cruises materialized in the book As Cruces de Pedra na Britain ("The Stone Crosses in Britain") in May 1930. It was also deeply affected by the death of Antón Losada Diéguez on October 15, 1929. In 1931 was elected as independent galleguista the Constituent Cortes of the Second Republic and participated in the Party's constitution Galeguista.
Member of the Galician Royal Academy since 1933, was confined in Badajoz in November 1934. During his stay in Extremadura for A Nosa Terra wrote a series of articles under the title of verbs of pear ("Words of lead") subsequently integrated into Sempre en Galiza. On September 6, 1935 put an end to exile after the efforts of the new Minister of the Interior, Manuel Portela Valladares. In 1936 he was again chosen deputy of the Popular Front candidate. He participated prominently in the campaign for a yes to the Statute of Autonomy of Galicia, which was approved by referendum in June 1936.
The military uprising that led to the Civil War caught him in Madrid, settling in Valencia in late 1936 and then in Barcelona. In 1938 he went into exile in New York and participated in the election campaign the Centro Gallego de La Habana and finally, in July 1940 he went to Buenos Aires. He was the top driver of Galicia Council, created in 1944 in Montevideo and sought to bring together the Galician deputies in exile, becoming representative of Galicia between republican institutions in exile. He was president of the Council until his death.
was minister without portfolio in the Republican government in exile headed by Jose Giral (1946-1947) and settled in Paris, the city where he lived until August 1947.
died January 7, 1950 in the sanatorium of the Centro Gallego de Buenos Aires, and was buried on 9 January in the Chacarita Cemetery. His remains were brought back to Galicia in 1984, and now rest in the Pantheon of Illustrious Gallegos, in the monastery of Santo Domingo de Bonaval. Castelao's life has been portrayed by Argentine Jorge Preloran documentary.
Versatile writer, cartoonist, caricaturist, painter, art theorist and politician, his work always reflected his commitment to the Galician and the world. During Franco's exile in 1944 published Sempre en Galiza, since the great text of Galician nationalism. His remains were repatriated and taken to the Pantheon of Illustrious Gallegos in 1984 amid demonstrations nationalists complained that the authorities "who exiled him now honor him."
began the narrative with a collection of short stories A ollo de vidro ("A glass eye") in 1922. In Cousas ("Things"), Retrincos ("Pieces") and dous I Sempra ("The two of Forever"), establishes a single set in Galician literature, culminating in the collection of essays Sempre en Galiza, connecting literature, politics and theory of Galician. His literary vision tends to demystify the topics manners with a sarcastic humor and, occasionally grotesque. Caste is undoubtedly the most prominent Galician twentieth century. He dedicated the second Day of Galician Literature in 1964.
His drawings, complete with sharp text, show the rural Galicia, chieftaincy, the poor, the blind, the homeless, people suffering from a realistic, critical but humorous.
album In Nós (1931) shows a collection drawings dating from 1916 to 1918. The latest albums are the expression of the horrors of the English Civil War.
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