Luis González Rodríguez: self-taught lyricism

Abstract

Among those Granada artists of the f irst half of the 20th century who chose to learn their art in international circles or in Madrid, we f ind an exceptional case in Luis González, a model of the learned and self-taught creator, whose enthusiasm was aroused by the Grand Tour he undertook in Europe and Egypt. Taking this fact as our starting point, we provide an analysis of an introspective artist who aimed to represent in his paintings the strength of light in the landscapes of Granada, and was imbued with an interpretative spirituality which had its roots in the Platonic sense the artist had of the works of another self-taught painter, El Greco.