MODEST CUIXART I TÁPIES (CARTEL DEL CARNAVAL DE 1984)

The 1984 carnival poster represents a before and after in the history of these posters, announcers of the main festival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Not only because of the high level of the articles that sign them, in the edition of 84 Modest Cuixart i Tapies- (Barcelona, 1925 - Palam s, 2007), co-founder of the Dau al Set group, but also for the type of compositions that we will find from now on. It should be noted that, to a large extent, these are compositions that respond more to the line of plastic work, which develop these articles in his pictorial work, and not so much to a specific development of the technique and own approach of the posters. Even so, if we make exceptions to the posters of 1965, signed by Jos Abad, and to a lesser extent the one of 1979, signed by Marina Braun, we had no opportunity, until the edition of Cuixart, to have posters with a high plastic value, with priority over other elements. We can see how most of the surface of the poster is, practically, a Cuixart painting, leaving only the lower band of the poster for two lines of text, Carnival 84 and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The prominence given to the plastic work of the art is evident, regardless of the motive it has represented, and that is more recognizable, less explicit.