Artists
Darío Morales
The sensuality of the female body was his main obsession; he treated it in a very personal way, surrounding it with closed environments and everyday objects that, nevertheless, gave his paintings a certain atmosphere of “pictorial scenography”. The attitude he assumed is close to that of art history before the invention of photography, when the model had to stand still for hours.
Selected Artwork
Woman in a Rocking Chair, 1972
Oil on canvas
160 x 114 cm
62 x 44 inches
Ana María in the Bathtub, 1983–86
Oil on canvas
116 x 98.5 cm
45 5/8 x 38 3/4 inches
Nude in Front of the Window, 1973
Oil on canvas
195 x 130 cm
76 3/4 x 51 1/8 inches
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Biography
Darío Morales (Cartagena, 1944 – Paris, 1988) drew the female body with a hyperrealist precision, in the line of classical masters such as Ingres and deliberately apart from the avant-gardes of his time — nudes and interiors built from intimacy and silence rather than display.
His central obsession was the sensuality of the female body within intimate domestic settings: quiet interiors, studio scenes where he portrayed himself alongside the model, and, toward the end of his life, exquisitely patinated bronze still lifes made from found objects.
Trained in Cartagena and Bogotá, he settled in Paris from 1969, studying engraving at Atelier 17 under S. W. Hayter. He held solo shows across Europe and the United States from 1972 on.
