Luisa Granero: The Graceful Simplicity of the Nude
by Ruth Perez-Chaves
Luisa Granero’s sculpture is about the female form; it recalls scenes of everyday life and the visible presence of women in the world. The sculptures have a simplicity of expression—the essential gestures of the female spirit—that reflects the artist’s Mediterranean surroundings and cultural heritage.
Born in Barcelona in 1924, Granero is a much honored sculptor and professor of sculpture at the Fine Arts University of Barcelona. Mediterranean women inform Granero’s creativity and also seem to be directly related to her primary encounters with the role of art and the role of women at home. “The truth is that art was never unknown to me. My mother and my aunt were models for Ramón Casas. In addition, my mother was also a painter. We were poor, but we owned copies of artworks.”1 By familiarizing herself with these contemporary works at home, Granero was introduced to the artistic concepts that had developed at the end of the nineteenth century in Barcelona, a city inhabited by Casas and many other Spanish artists deeply involved in investigating the female form, such as the young Pablo Picasso.
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