Las aporias de Mateo Inurria

Abstract

Mateo Inurria Lainosa (1867-1924), has been considered by critics as one of the most important artists of that transitional period, prior to 1936, made up of those artistic centaurs who galloped midway between two different tendencies, on one side a peculiar XIXth century spanish romanticism and, on the other hand, an incipient awakening of a castillean Art-Nouveau rennaissance.
The following analysis is an attempt to come closer to each one of the various phases of the work of thisgreat artist with an specially critical eye towards the latest and most revealing discoveries that have only recently appeared, after much investigation of his work.
Two special doubts, never before considered up till now, are specially underlined: the full influence that the work of Auguste Rodin might have had on his work, along with his own peculiar contribution towards the prevailing andalucian cultural regionalism of the pre-civil war era.