{"title":"Paintings for collectors","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"autorretrato-amarillo","title":"Yellow Self-Portrait","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eThis work belongs to my yellow period. At that time I used heavy brown cardboards that were also used in life painting classes at the Santa Isabel de Hungría Faculty of Fine Arts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eAs I was very influenced by the German Expressionists, including Kirchner, I painted compulsively and tried to achieve the most with the least.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eThis self-portrait is painted from life with a mirror placed on the floor. Hence the perspective.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe brushstrokes are thick and heavily impastoed. I particularly remember the yellow colour of the face, as it was a very expensive tube of paint that I bought when I didn't even have money for anything. I was trying to get the most luminosity out of the wide range of yellows I was using. Every time I put a little of that colour on the palette it was like working with diamonds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eThis is a very wild self-portrait.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eIt is alive. It has a sharp look that is only resolved with two brushstrokes of Prussian blue.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eIt is a mixture of drawing and painting that, without a doubt, still feeds me today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cspan\u003eTechnique: Oil\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eSupport: High-grammage cardboard\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eMeasurements: 50.5 x 33 cm.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eDate of completion: 1996\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Antonio García Villarán","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48234688217434,"sku":"","price":400.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2718\/0726\/files\/IMG_3208.jpg?v=1716375530"},{"product_id":"papa-amarillo","title":"My father's blue profile","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis portrait belongs to my yellow period.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eBack then, I became obsessed with the color yellow and wore it constantly. To enhance it further, I combined it with its complementary color, blue. That's why, in this portrait of my father, you can see that his hair, part of his face, the background, and his shirt are different shades of blue.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eIt's painted from life, as I was heavily influenced by both the Impressionists and the German Expressionists at the time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eIn this work, you can see the immediacy and power achieved through the haste with which I had to complete the portrait.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eThe colors are intuitive.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eI've painted my father throughout my career.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eThis is a special portrait, as it belongs to a period when I was just beginning to find my footing in painting.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eSome of the traits I apply to my work today are reflected in this portrait.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eIf you look closely, part of the face is the unpainted cardboard itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eI liked this technique because it absorbed the oil very quickly and I could start and finish in one session.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eI concentrated intensely, because every brushstroke counted. I look back on this time fondly, and this work shows the wildness and energy of my thinking back then.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cspan\u003eTechnique: Oil\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eSupport: Cardboard\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eMeasurements: 35 x 24.3 cm.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eDate of completion: 1997\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Antonio García Villarán","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48234694476122,"sku":"","price":500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2718\/0726\/files\/IMG_3201_865ae857-b006-4da0-b501-4f8551529254.jpg?v=1716538910"},{"product_id":"homenaje-a-lautrec","title":"Tribute to Lautrec","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eThis is a rare piece in my production, as it is a PhD project. I was asked to make a free interpretation of a work by a master I liked, and I chose the great draughtsman and painter Henry Toulouse-Lautrec.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eIn the picture you can see the famous dancer Jane Avril leaving the Moulin Rouge. I liked this image because it is a very different vision of what he used to represent, that is, partying, dancing, debauchery, sexuality, and ultimately, the atmosphere that was experienced in the Cabarets of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eJean Avril's face is serene, pensive, almost meditative.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the original work, there are ways of applying paint that are typical of Impressionism. The floor is pointillist and the dancer's dress is made with long lines of paint.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eIn my interpretation I used pigments with polyvinyl acetate and collage. The pieces of paper that I used at that time I got them at “El jueves”, which is a flea market held in Seville every week.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eI bought old books because I really liked the brown color of their pages.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eI tried to get that color in many ways, but none came close to the patina that time gives.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eIn my interpretation I completely changed the colors.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eI turned the original yellow background into blue, and the blue into yellow. I closed the plane much more so that we could focus on the main figure. One of the differences between my work and Toulouse-Lautrec's is that in mine there is not so much background. 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