A PERSONAL REFLECTION OF COMTEMPORARY REALISM
Since the late 1990īs contemporary realism has recovered an important place in the scope of international art, mostly in some western European countries, as well as in the United States. As I see it, contemporary realism mixes deep concepts of old pictorial alchemies and contemporary rules of design and composition, reflecting both, important icons and scenes that form part of present life.

Particularly, I have found in contemporary realism, my better pictorial scene. In it, I can combine everything that attracts me from the classics, with compositions originated in modern graphic design. By means of contemporary realism I can recreate as much in daily objects, as well as in nudes that emerge from the clear dark flamenco of the XIV the century with more photographic compositions, decidedly originated from my visual formation as a designer.

In contemporary realism, I recreate myself, because I believe that it is by excellence the mean through which artists and drawers will recover the value of the outline, the importance of knowing how to draw, the knowledge of proportions, the values of lights and shadows, of color treatment, and among all, the challenge to face what we see and transform it into an expression of how we feel it. The real value of that which so many artists through centuries made an effort to discover and to leave us a legacy of an incalculable an esthetic and spiritual value.

Finally, I try to make pieces of art with which one can coexist on a daily basis. A work that hopefully achieves to touch precisely your commitment with the aesthetic, over a defined philosophical position, that not always the spectator is ready to solve, face or explain.
Each one of my pieces is the reflection of an intimate moment between my personal vision and the contact with the object itself, being this one animated or not. It is a moment alone with the model, or with the fruit, or with the furniture. It is that little great moment of understanding and interpretation of what is there everyday and that suddenly acquires a magnificent stature, revealing a deep history, or simply let's itself be seen in a more humane way. This sample, made up of nudes and still life, pretends, like the rest of my work, not just to create paintings, but spirits that can cohabit with people, that can accompany them for a long time and that can occupy, hopefully as pleasing as possible, a place in their lives.
 
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