Word: pontevedra
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Souto was born in 1902 in the northwest Spanish town of Pontevedra (pop. 28,755). His father, a painter of Corot-like landscapes, was also a magistrate and enough of an Anglophile to name his son Arturo, after King Arthur of the Round Table. Taught painting by his father, at 21 he went to Paris, where he studied, haunted the galleries, became a fervent admirer of Delacroix and Rouault. He decided that the modernistic Ecole de Paris was not for him. Said he: "A painting, for me, must be based on human emotion. It is a deep experience...