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Setmana Santa? (Easter?)

Setmana Santa? (Easter?), Josep Aragay, 1937. Etching. Josep Aragay Municipal Museum. Breda.

 

Setmana Santa? (Easter?), Josep Aragay, 1937. Etching. Josep Aragay Municipal Museum. Breda.

 

Setmana Santa?, made in 1937, is an etching with a moral theme, but it also contains a strong element of social criticism. During a period marked by the Civil War, Aragay highlights the differences between social classes, showing a wealthy couple next to a mother and child begging at the door of a church. Aragay, who was a town councillor in Breda, supported reforms promoted by the Republican government. After the war he was arrested and imprisoned.

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