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Tres personajes [Three Characters]
Tres personajes [Three Characters]

Tres personajes [Three Characters]

Primary (Torroella de Montgri, Girona, Spain, 1911–Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1966)
NationalityArgentinean, South America
Date1941
MediumTempera on paper
DimensionsSheet: 12 1/2 × 9 3/4 in. (31.8 × 24.8 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Arte BA USA Foundation, 2007.85
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Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2007.85
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Batlle Planas was familiar with the Surrealist exercise of automatism, an approach to drawing and writing that uses involuntary action as a means of accessing and expressing the subconscious. He was very interested in concepts related to spirituality and represented this realm by including in his compositions featureless figures which he saw as embodiments of mystic messengers. In Tres personajes [Three Characters], a work from a series of temperas that examines dream imagery, the three silhouetted figures represent the subconscious human mind.
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