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Artists›Juan Genovés

Juan Genovés

1930

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The Artist as Adversary

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1971

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The 1960s: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1967

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Juan Genovés was a Spanish painter whose large-scale canvases depicted crowded urban and institutional spaces populated by anonymous figures rendered in muted earth tones and grays. Working from the 1960s onward, he developed a distinctive approach to postwar figuration that emphasized collective anonymity and social alienation through repetition and compression of the human form. His compositions often evoked queues, waiting rooms, and mass gatherings, employing a flattened perspective that denied psychological access to individual subjects. Genovés' work engaged with the anxieties of modern bureaucratic life and the erasure of the individual within mass society.

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Artworks (14)

Untitled E

1973 · Watercolor with touches of graphite on cream wove paper

53 × 70.5 cm (20 7/8 × 27 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Silence, Silence, plate ten from Silencio, Silencio

1971 · Etching on ivory wove paper

Iage: 32.3 × 43.8 cm (12 3/4 × 17 1/4 in.); Plate: 33 × 44.5 cm (13 × 17 9/16 in.); Sheet: 50.5 × 66.3 cm (19 15/16 × 26 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Five Minutes, plate eight from Silencio, Silencio

1971 · Etching on ivory wove paper

Image: 31 × 43.5 cm (12 1/4 × 17 3/16 in.); Plate: 31.8 × 44.2 cm (12 9/16 × 17 7/16 in.); Sheet: 50.4 × 66.1 cm (19 7/8 × 26 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Group, plate two from Silencio, Silencio

1971 · Etching on ivory wove paper

Image: 31.5 × 44 cm (12 7/16 × 17 3/8 in.); Plate: 32 × 44.5 cm (12 5/8 × 17 9/16 in.); Sheet: 50.2 × 65 cm (19 13/16 × 25 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Double Page, plate five from Silencio, Silencio

1971 · Etching on ivory wove paper

Image: 31.3 × 44.2 cm (12 3/8 × 17 7/16 in.); Plate: 32 × 44.5 cm (12 5/8 × 17 9/16 in.); Paper: 50.2 × 66.3 cm (19 13/16 × 26 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Afterwards, With The Ones Before, plate six from Silencio, Silencio

1971 · Etching on ivory wove paper

Image: 30.1 × 43.5 cm (11 7/8 × 17 3/16 in.); Plate: 31.7 × 44.5 cm (12 1/2 × 17 9/16 in.); Sheet: 50.3 × 66 cm (19 13/16 × 26 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Triangle, plate seven from Silencio, Silencio

1971 · Etching on ivory wove paper

Image: 31.5 × 44.2 cm (12 7/16 × 17 7/16 in.); Plate: 32.1 × 44.5 cm (12 11/16 × 17 9/16 in.); Sheet: 50.3 × 66 cm (19 13/16 × 26 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Single Direction, plate four from Silencio, Silencio

1971 · Etching on ivory wove paper

Image: 31.5 × 44.2 cm (12 7/16 × 17 7/16 in.); Plate: H.: 31.7 cm (12 1/2 in.); Sheet: 50.4 × 56.3 cm (19 7/8 × 22 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Group Exhibition The Artist as Adversary

New York · 1971

Group Exhibition The 1960s: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

New York · 1967