Olympic salute: the classic athlete

(See what was noted for Olympic salute: the modern athlete).

This is one of Gargallo's works in which one can most clearly observe his inclinations and preferences for the archaizing aspects of classical Greek statuary, which have been the object of a subtle and highly effective transposition, absolutely unnoticed by superficial or distracted observers, at the same time. terrain of his personal and innovative conception of the figurative with a classicist tendency, managing to carry out not only his work, but also the work of his historical time, thus more than covering those objectives that he always considered typical of true artists.

The cactus that seems to support the horse, and perhaps is structurally necessary, does not fail to suggest a certain invocation or symbolism of a Noucentista nature and, inevitably, like the entire figure, Mediterranean.