Arts
Spanish realist artist focuses work on theme of emigration
By Kimmie Solomon | October 4, 2009DOUGLAS GONZALEZ / The Dartmouth Staff The Spanish realist painter Cristobal Toral took faculty and students away from the everyday reality of Dartmouth and into the imaginative reality of his critically acclaimed art a place where the rules of time, space and movement are often suspended to surprise and move the viewer in a lecture on Thursday in the Haldeman Center. Toral conducted his lecture translated for those in attendance in Spanish. Jose del Pino, chair of the Spanish and Portuguese department, introduced Toral as "one of the most renowned Spanish painters alive," an artist whose success is even more notable in light of his difficult upbringing in rural Andalucia, Spain, del Pino said.
