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En éste, el movimiento de la escena se acentúa por las vibrantes y largas pinceladas del cielo, en tonos rosas y malvas, muy habituales en su producción madura. Es también frecuente en estos temas, como aquí se ve en el carro, la presencia de un coro alegre de muchachas, cuyo agitado movimiento capta el artista con genio vivo y nervioso.
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Here the "Rocío Pilgrimage", as it is known, provided the artist with the opportunity to capture, in a motif of age-old, deep-rooted, Andalusian tradition, the gay colours of the pilgrims' garments and the richly harnessed horses, the light shining on the sheets, dyed in soft colours, that are draped over the carts, and the movement of the girls to the music. Bilbao produced a large number of paintings with this Rocío theme and in his final years is known to have worked on one that was to be a compendium of his previous pictorial experiences with the motif, although he was never to finish it. In this painting, the motion in the scene is accentuated by the long, vibrant brushstrokes forming the sky in the pinks and mauves common in the artist’s mature production. Also frequent in these themes, as here on the cart, is the inclusion of a chorus of merry girls, whose restless movements are captured with a nervous genius full of vitality. This is very typical of Bilbao's paintings, as a well-known critic pointed out, when he so rightly said that the artist: "pursued the rhythm of grace in his expression of greatest movement; because of this his figures [...] exhibit a restless way of life, and activity that is rather agitated."
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