Amable Arias en la vanguardia vasca

Abstract

Amable Arias, when he was 9 years old, suffered a serious accident that provoked a pelvis fracture that would bring him him various affections throughout his existence. After some years he moved with his family to San Sebastian, where he was to become a notable character of the artistic world of that town. The present work attempts to illustrate the relation between his plastic and literary productions with certain avatars of his existence, like the oedipal constellation, emigration, his depressions and the commitment with the Basque vanguard and politics in the postwar generation. The relationship between his artistic production and his corporal alterations is also studied. In that sense, the author finally attempts to make a parallelism with the great Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.