Rafael Moreno

RAFAEL MORENO PECINO (Córdoba, 1945).
"Composition".1997
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Presents slight lack of polychrome in the frame.
Measurements: 27 x 34 cm; 49 x 56 cm (frame).

Still life of sober and elegant composition, centered in a glass of cut crystal with red wine, arranged on a wooden table and accompanied by a delicate lace cloth. The scene is resolved with a marked sense of balance and visual concentration: the glass acts as the central axis, highlighted by the intensity of the red of the wine, which contrasts with the ochre, brown and golden tones of the background and the table.

Rafael Moreno studied Classical Drawing at the School of Arts and Crafts in Cordoba, combining this training with high school. At the age of sixteen he entered the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes in Seville, where he remained for three years. Finally, in 1964 he moved to the Central School of Fine Arts in Madrid, obtaining in 1966 a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University. During the eighties Moreno specialized in still life, partly leaving aside the portrait. He is currently represented in the Museum of Modern Art of Mendoza (Argentina), the Camón Aznar Museum of Zaragoza, the Museum of Modern Art of Concepción (Chile), the Artistic and Literary Athenaeum of Madrid and Barcelona, the collection of Sanwa Bank in Japan, the headquarters of Fomento Nacional in Barcelona, etc. He also has other works in private collections in Spain, France, the United States, Germany, Australia, Japan and Switzerland.