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Felipe Alonso; painting with courage
It is said that the biggest challenge for an artist is to find his way, his own voice. At the beginning of the learning process, technical achievements and execution skills attract all the attention. Then comes the admiration for other artists, the imitation of style, the inspiration of the forerunners. But focussing just on technical…
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Benjamin Björklund, a unique voice from Uppsala
Things happen in mysterious ways. Not so many years ago, an artist acquired notoriety through a slow and laborious pathway made of exhibitions, galleries and collectors to end up hopefully in the biennial and public recognition. Nowadays, social media has become a gigantic gallery where many artists make their work accesible to the rest of…
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Vincent Desiderio; the technical narrative
A workshop memory I remember that, during a workshop I attended years ago, Antonio López held an informal colloquium at the end of the day. Urged by the questions, he talked to us about painting and painters; about his predilections and his rejections. Antonio López is not usually very condescending with other artist’s work; it…
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Nicolás Uribe painter; a podcast conversation in Madrid
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Sangram Majumdar: Close to things
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Florencio Galindo The Legacy of a Master
In March of 2015 I had the opportunity to interview Master painter Florencio Galindo in his study of Avila. A year and a half later he passed away. This video shows a summary of that afternoon of conversation in which Florencio Galindo talks about painting and about his painting, with passion and clarity of thought.…
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The great voyage of Velázquez
In the early part of 1649, the spanish painter Diego de Silva Velázquez received a commission from King Philip IV to travel to Italy. Among his other courtly functions as valet de chambre to the King, Velázquez was in charge of decorating the royal quarters. This would be the modern equivalent of having a luxury…
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Miguel Coronado: the lenguage of painting
That purity of heart that genuinely good men possess is plainly visible in Miguel Coronado. And when it comes to painting, this honest artist speaks passionately and perhaps, as he says himself, a bit too loudly. Invariably good humored, he’s always ready to deliver some dry witticism and break into that honest, contagious laugh of…
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Stuart Shils: The magic of visual perception
Stuart Shils told me the following anecdote during my conversation with him. While on one of his summers in Italy with JSS (Jerusalem Studio School), he went to view Piero della Francesca’s painting The Flagellation of Christ with a group of his Israeli students from JSS. He had never seen the painting before and this…
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Florencio Galindo, the Transcendence of the Everyday
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A gentleman from Ávila Standing over six feet two inches tall, slim, elegantly dressed and with his aristocratic manners, Florencio Galindo is the perfect embodiment of an English gentleman. He was, however, born and bred in Ávila. He never turned his back on the region and settled down to live there many years ago.…