Pragmatically, I think that the abstract expressionism is not an
accurate description of the body of work created by each artist. Indeed, the
movement comprised many different painterly styles varying in both technique
and quality of expression.
Despite this variety, abstract expressionist
paintings share several broad characteristics, they are basically abstract. Also, they show similar emphasis on the unstudied and intuitive application of that technique in a form sophisticated of psychic spontaneous akin to the automatism of the Surrealists, with a intuitive intent of expressing the force of the creative unconscious of the creator.
Constructively, more than the colors or shapes one can create, there are relieves and textures. This is the part I love most when I capture a moment onto a surface.
Many enjoy a flat surface, but in my opinion, the relieve makes
the work have more life and, at the same time, projects the color.
Personally, curators have criticized me for the way I paint and make relieves; “there’s
a lot of mud”, “you don’t leave any space”, “the
atmosphere is very saturated,” etc. According to my way of thinking, it’s boring to follow the follow academic norms of painting.
When I break these norms, and allow the color to
express itself, is when I truly create something different.
In this day in age, when the art world is saturated with an immense quantity of artists, where in every country there are thousands of expressions and a need to express them.
I
have no idea what can possibly be created in the next hundred years.
Me pregunto, ¿Realmente es indispensable crear una forma, figura u objeto sin importar lo que sea para que la gente pueda entender y apreciar la belleza de la obra? La vida real se vuelve en ocasiones una monotonía, que lo único que deseo cuando se trata apreciar nuevo arte es que me sorprendan con algo totalmente innovador que rompa con esa realidad cotidiana.
Ahora, los antiguos prehispánicos no tenían hacia el arte ninguna de las actitudes estériles desde el punto de vista social que hoy en día adoptamos en la cultura universal. Por ente, en mi perspectiva, independientemente de cualquier área artística, el verdadero arte de ninguna manera es o debe ser complaciente. En lo absoluto, no trata de llenar las expectativas de las sociedades. Para quien debe ser confortable únicamente es para el artista.
En cambio, el arte abstracto derivado de una expresión espontanea, nace para perdurar. Desde el inicio del siglo XXI nos encontramos ante la invasión de manifestaciones abstractas baratas y ridículas, las cuales se encuentran en cualquier tienda departamental, "festivales de arte", las cuales son pintadas en volumen únicamente con un propósito de decoración y adorno y carentes de una estética pura de los abstracto.
El arte abstracto se sustenta por sí solo con base en la experiencia y los elementos técnicos del artista. La persona que adquiere una obra de arte, más que el precio económico de la misma, tiene la satisfacción de pertenencia y ser poseedora de las formas estéticas contemporáneas que enfatizan sobre esa obra, y sobre todo que es el resultado de un trabajo único y con una identidad particular.
As you can see, nothing in these paintings are recognizable. There are no people, fruit or landscapes. The space has an abstract perspective, where the composition of colors was birthed through the movement of the spatula.
Unconventional, every painting is created within a particular environment, and if people do not understand that environment, may be they will never be able to appreciate it.
After years of trying to be able to create something new to my eyes, something really inspired me, this painting is the one that set me on the path of the abstract. In March of 2005, I painted this in five exhausted days. In that time I had yearned to be to create something similar to abstract art; something different than the boring and methodical techniques. The title of this painting and another of my work speaks of the state of mind in which I found myself in the moment that I was painting. In some case, the title can reflect what I was thinking in that moment, or there may simply be some similarity between the title and the shape or form of the art.
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