Allegory of the Drunk Poet

In Alegoría del poeta ebrio (Allegory of the Drunk Poet), he depicts a scene that highlights the meeting of a bard with his muses in a dream caused by alcohol. A woman, an angel and, possibly, Dante and Petrarca appear on the surface through clearly outlined broad curved strokes separated from the background.

A jar and a tipped over glass appear on the table, which marks a straight line to where the poet’s head rests, alongside the hand of an angel that watches over his sleep. Color plays an essential role in the composition. The color red establishes a diagonal that extends from the top left to the bottom right corner, while the shades of white of a cloth placed on the bottom part balance out the composition along with the whites from the background. Curved lines dominate the work, providing rhythm to all of the elements. The characters are connected through undulations, forming chromatic areas in this large-scale painting that, due to its characteristics, brings to mind seventeenth-century Italian paintings.

The work was produced in 1996 and forms part of the Museum of Art’s collection since the year 2000.