Daniel Vázquez Díaz
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Daniel Vázquez Díaz (January 15, 1882 – 1969) was a Spanish painter.
Born in Nerva, Spain, Vázquez Díaz settled in Paris in 1918, where he found cubism to be the ideal form of expression. Unlike other artists like Juan Gris, he was not an intellectual cubist; he used external forms and the morphology of cubism to redo his language, characteristic for the use of sober and gray colors, and for the weight of his plans. He was a teacher of painting in Madrid. Among his students were Salvador Dalí, Jorge Gallardo and Modesto Ciruelos. After the Spanish Civil War, he continued teaching artists like Rafael Canogar or Agustín Ibarrola.
These characteristics transmit a special solemnity to his works, considered by some artists like Zurbaranesca to be in the line of their compatriot friend and contemporary Eugenio Hermoso who carried out studies in Seville and in Madrid. Among his works are the portraits of outstanding artists and Spanish intellectuals of the XX century highlight, as Unamuno, as well as the cool air that he painted in the La Rabida Monastery in 1930, dedicated to Christopher Columbus and the relationship with his native county.
