I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that… the objective world… never really exists as we see and understand it… has no intrinsic meaning of its own, such as the meanings that we attach to it.
Giorgio Morandi (1890 – 1964)
Giorgio Morandi
Natura Morta, 1929
The artist Javier Aliste searches for the syncretism of our current cultural identity. To find his answers he has been researching the Andean world and the idiosyncrasies of the Amazonian people since 1997. In his work of art he uses sacred chromatic and sacred symbolism, which is inspired on the way people live in South America typically Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile.
…for my inspiration…I liked to go out in the evenings…
and have a good-looking man tell me how beautiful I am
or how great an artist I am –
and he touches my hand … I loved it! – I needed that.
And I had many, many.”
Tamara de Lempicka
Tamara de Lempicka (Łempicka) (16 May 1898 – 18 March 1980), born Maria Górska in Warsaw, Poland, was a Polish Art Deco painter and “the first woman artist to be a glamour star”.
“Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.”
ANTONI TAPIES
Barcelona, 1923 – 2012, painter, sculptor.
Tàpies eschewed traditional painting materials and championed the use of all sorts of other materials long before arte povera became a fashionable critical notion. He did in fact invent a new form of material expression.
