El exilio de la cotidianidad

Abstract

This essay explores some of the fundamental characteristics of still life, mainly those related to the fact that these works of art deal with the closest and most common things, those objects that we normally overlook. Analyzing a painting by the Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664) and an ekphrasis by the Spanish poet Rafael Alberti (1902-1999), entitled  "Zurbarán” (1948), the paper discusses paradox as one of the recurrent figures of still life. In paradox and still life, the search for precision and exactness, both in expression and line, results in broader figures of thought that teach us how to see and to speculate.