Vicente Rojo painted a series of works with this same image, a grid with a T-shape emerging from different-colored squares. In Negación (Negation), the artist infuses the grid structure with a certain texture due to the grainy surface and intentional scratch marks.Negacion, 1971. Vicente Rojo (born in Barcelona, lives in Mexico). Oil on canvas: 40" x 40". Gift of the McElhenney Family.
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Vicente Rojo
icente Rojo was born in Spain. He studied ceramics and sculpture in Barcelona before moving to Mexico, where he has lived and worked since 1949. He became the art director of the periodical México en el Arte in 1953, and he subsequently served as the artistic director for several Mexican publications. His first exhibition was held in 1958 in Mexico City, followed by other solo exhibits in Cuba, Colombia, the United States, and Spain. For three decades his work has been exhibited to critical acclaim in both solo and group exhibitions throughout Latin America, the United States and Europe.Rojo belongs to the Ruptura generation of artists in Mexico, artists in the 1960s who rejected the nationalist realist art that originated with the muralists. Rojo and other Ruptura artists sought more personal expressions of creativity through abstract art. Today Rojo is one of Mexico’s best-known contemporary artists.
The paintings of Vicente Rojo are characterized by the use of geometric forms that are lent a romantic and personal quality by his refined use of color. He often creates serial compositions that represent specific cycles, for example, his series titled Mexico in the Rain painted in the early 1980s.