Vicente Cutanda

Through his long-standing friendship with the painter, Ricardo Arredondo Calmache, he was led to abandon his preference for works in the style of Rosales and turned to social realism.

[1] This tendency was heightened by a stay in Italy, at the Regio Istituto delle Belle Arti de Roma, supported by a hard-won scholarship.

Five years later, he was honored with a First Class prize for "A Workers' Strike in Vizcaya", his first major work in social realist style.

When he returned to Toledo, he became the Professor of "Special studies of drawing and decorative composition" at the Escuela Superior de Artes Industriales.

[1] During the last three decades of his life, he provided illustrations for magazines such as La Ilustración Artística [es] and Blanco y Negro.