The iconography of the imposed silence: The language of José Caballero

Abstract

José Caballero was a painter from Huelva in the avant-garde of the 20th century. This article briefly traces his personal biography and his artistic career since his transfer for Madrid, at first with the aim of pursuing his studies in engineering, until his full consolidation as an artist in which he managed to create his own pictorial language. For this we will be using, on the one hand, different biographical sources such a monographic books and catalogs of exhibitions, from a different points of view, as well as different sources that will serve to understand the political, social and artistic context of Spain in those years. On the other hand, we will use the analysis of some of his works in order to understand the trajectory of the artist, as well as their different stages and most important moments.