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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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Harold Speed: Two essential books
A Master Legacy Harold Speed (11 February 1872 – 20 March 1957) was a famous English painter and member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. His work, especially his portraits, in both oil and charcoal, is exceptionally elegant and demonstrates a great technical mastery. But the most notable thing about Harold Speed is that,…
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How to clean oil paint brushes and enjoy it
I have to admit to becoming a paint brush geek. I’ve gone from being completely indifferent to treating them with a care that borders on the unhealthy. And the person most responsible for my pious conversion to this good practice is my friend, and fellow painter, Miguel Coronado. Seeing the way in which he fusses…
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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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Alex Kanevsky; sharing the Art of Teaching
Alex Kanevsky stops in front of a student’s easel. With a hand placed on his chin, he casts a concentrated eye over the work and ponders on the exact words with which to articulate his ideas. His attitude expresses respect for the artist and a pronounced sense of responsibility. He does not want to impart…
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Josef Albers Interaction of Color
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The true passion of Josef Albers (1888-1976) was teaching. A German artist who studied at the Bauhaus and was later exiled to the United States, he dedicated his life as an educator to an ambitious project; teaching his students to SEE. Applying a strict method, one removed from conventional academic practice, his work involved…
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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.…
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Euan Uglow: the poetry of precision
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “Nobody has ever looked at you as intensively as I have.” Euan Uglow once directed those words towards one of his models, conscious of the depth and penetration of his act of scrutinity and somehow justifying the endless posing sessions. A model who began posing for him when she was a young law student…