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Born November 20, 1880 – Tarragon; Died May 1966, Barcelona.
The Catalan Opisso spent time working alongside Gaudi on his endless project the Sagrada Familia as a pupil in 1896 at the Cercle Artistique de San-Lluch. Opisso frequented the café cabaret Quatre Gats which opened in 1897. In 1900 he began participating in exhibitions of the Cercle at the Salle Parés. In 1911 Opisso acquired a third place metal in the 4th Exposition Internationale d'Art de Barcelone.
Numerous publications published Opisso’s work including the Spanish Quatre Gats and the French satirical journals Le Rire and Frou-frou published his work during his visit to France in 1902. His drawings often included an implicit social criticism of the local middle classes especially those drawings which Opisso published in the illustrated literary works. His work can be divided into two classes: the satirical drawings and caricatures intended for the satirical journals, principally illustrative and easily accessible, this work is reminiscent of the reminding of the flippancy of Bol-dini; Opisso’s, more nuanced work as published in albums, were inundated with a deep social criticism, and in whom they acknowledge the echo of the art of Daumier and Toulouse-Lautrec.
Opisso is often remembered in Spain as the "soul" of the publication TBO which went on to become a generic term in Spain for any graphic cartoon "TBO" that in Spain happened to be the generic name of the graphical comic strip, and thus all the magazines with a high percentage of them in their pages denominated "Tebeos". A publication native to Barcelona TBO was known by all young Spaniards prior to and after the Civil War. TBO was known for it’s extraordinary covers (usually the work of Opisso) and for it’s cadre of illustrators including: Juan Junceda, Batllori Jofré, Castany and Benejam
Bibliography:
-E. Benezit : Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs. Grund, Paris, 1999.
-Gérald Schurr : Les Petits Maîtres de la peinture 1820-1920, t. VI, Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1985.
-Cien anos de pintura en Espana y Portugal 1830-19301. VII, Antiquaria, Madrid, 1991.
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