Autors: Joan Descarga i Àlex Nogué
Edita: Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2007.
ISBN:978-84-475-3170-7
Dipòsit legal: B-24.714-2007
170 pàgines. Color.
Edició bilingüe: català i castellà.
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Trementina, Una Metàfora de la Pintura (Turpentine, A Metaphor About Painting ),
by Nogué, À. and Descarga, J. That work was inspired on the heroism and
creativity of the women that lived in a closed valley in the Catalan
Pyrenees during the middle of the XIX Century. They made a natural
remedy and used to travel all around the country selling it in order to
get over the deprivation in which they lived in that area at those
times.
The basic product for that natural cure was the turpentine (trementina) ,
curiously enough it is the same basic product used to paint in oils.
Actually, it is easy to imagine the great number of connections that we
should consider taking this coincidence as a starting point: The
turpentine comes from the resin of the pine tree, so, trees were used
as raw material in the Pyrenees.