The shadow of the island (en/es)
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Hello everyone around here.
Today I visit you to share one of those experiences in which I have rarely been involved in my extensive artistic career. Although I have participated in the execution of some mural paintings, it is a genre that besides admiring it, I have a lot of respect for it.
The techniques to paint artistic murals have evolved throughout history both in the materials and in the supports where they are developed.
For the painter or artist used to traditional formats. Easel painting, facing the mural scales is a sudden change, especially in my case that I ignore the traditions and do not use the technical artifluxes to develop the work, but I do it directly on the chosen support; this time you see a rectangular and vertical wall and in the street. Another question against, because I am an artist most of the time locked up in his studio creating.
That is to say, I am not very used to the hustle and bustle of people and means of transportation in the work area.
This time the challenge was greater to overcome this scenic question, because it was in the middle of the Havana street, in the area covered by the community art project, the Ojo del Ciclon, in Old Havana.
In that street, besides me, other artists are leaving their mark with their personal styles and technical skills.
I confess that launching myself a capella, without methods of translation or other support to draw the structure of the mural, I was at the limit of being about to give up, because when working on a ladder, with very limited movement and with little visual field, what stuck to the wall seemed well resolved, when descending and looking at distance was pure deformation.
The great challenge was to achieve the head of the main figure (in this case, that of Jose Marti, a figure of great importance in the general history of Cuba).
To make matters worse, the wall was already sealed with oil paint, which made it very difficult to trace with charcoal, as it was very smooth. The same thing happened when it was time to apply the color.
One of my purposes was to integrate the composition to the architectural environment of the place, so I took advantage of the presence of lattices in the upper part of the area and created an imitation of a broken wall where I connected the poetic hair of the main figure.
I used the same solution in the lower part of the mural, but creating the illusion of an aged wall built with bricks.
The materials used to make this work were: various colors of oil paints, brushes and kerocen thinner (bright light) domestic, tow and a ladder.
In the upper part I took advantage of the local color of the wall. All the work is done in an expressionist way, although the result is a surrealistic, metaphorical and poetic composition.
The main emphasis in the expressionist is placed on the loose and spontaneous solution to achieve the atmospheric city over which the head of the apostle levitates and vibrates.
Other characteristic elements of my personal poetic discourse in the work, such as . The roofs and the bodies and faces that transmute in space and things.
Thank you for joining me .
PROCESO CREATIVO
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Para mayor reto, la pared ya estaba sellada con pintura de aceite, lo que hacia muy difícil el trazado con carboncillo, por estar muy lisa. Lo mismo pasó a ls hora de s0licar el color.
Uno de mis propósitos era integrar la composición al entorno arquitectónico del lugar pot lo que aproveche en la parte superior del area la presencia de celosias y cree una imitación de pared rota por donde conecte el cabello poetico de ls figura principal.
Esa misma solución la utilicé en la parte inferior del mural, pero creando la ilusión de una pared envejecida y construida con ladrillos.
Los materiales utilizados para realizar esta obra fueron: varios colores de pinturas al aceite, Pinceles y diluyente de kerocen ( luz brillante) domestico, estopa y una escalera .
En la parte superior aproveche el color local de la pared. Todo el trabajo está realizado de forma expresionista, aunque el resultado es una composición surrealista, metáforica y poética.
El mayor énfasis en lo expresionista esta puesto en la solución suelta y espontánea para lograr la atmosférica ciudad sobre la que levita y vibra la cabeza del apóstol.
Otros elementos caracteristicos de mi poetica personal discursar en la obra, como . Los tejados y los cuerpos y rostros que trasmutan en el espacio y las cosas .
Gracias por acompañarme .
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