Imaginary Museum

This section is for an application for european universities. Here I show some of the art pieces that I admire and I think they had influenced my work and admiration for Fine Arts. Also, I explain a little about me and what I want for my career as a Visual Artist.

Alexandre Falguière, 1875, oil.

I love this painting. Many of my works have been related to mexican Lucha Libre, its folklore and an excuse for me to develop my habilites for human anatomy. Constantly, I search for artist and artworks that explore wrestling as a theme and sport that apparently is universal: training, sportsmanship, competition, develop the body to the maximum. I saw this big painting two times and i love it. The first time at the exhibition in Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City 2015, the second time at the Musée d´Orsay in 2018.

Fabián Chairez, 2017, oil

Fabian Chairez is one of my mexican contemporary artist heroes. I love his style and use of anatomy. I want to paint allegories, so this artist is a good reference.

Saturnino Herrán, , 1916, oil

Herrán was one of the best painters and drawers in his time. He is an inspiration for figurative artist. Chairez had declared this also. I love his particular style, sometimes like plains and with strong outlines.

George Bellows, 1909, oil

I want to represent the dynamism and force of contact sports (deportes de contacto), not only Lucha Libre, also wrestling, kick boxing, mixed martial arts, etc. I hate nonsense violence, but I practice MMA. I appreciate technique and discipline. I like competition. I like a phrase of the mexican luchador Blue Demon: "The wrestling is a sport of barbarians where there is no place for the barbarians. I think bellows demonstrate the aesthetics of "sportsmanlike" violence.

Howard Lyon, , 2020, oil

I admire the work of this american artist. I admire his versatility about the themes. He works for Wizards of the Coast making illustrations in oil for the card game Magic the Gathering buy he continues with his personal projects. This is one of his last, The four seasons. I want to paint allegories.

Dr Alderete,2013, digital

Alderete is an argentinian illustrator who lives in Mexico City. Gross outlines and plains with use of textures and brilliant colors. I think he uses a great technique for image composition.

Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, XIX century, oil

This is one of my favorite paintings in the collection of Museo Nacional de San Carlos in Mexico City. Its immense with lots of details and fragments of a story. I love historical and allegorical paintings.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1596, oil.

I can watch this at the Museo Nacional de Arte in 2018. For me is an example for the skin tones, the modeling and the use of lights and shadows. Itsn´t as dark as his subsequent works but I love the modeling and simple composition.

Angela Wang "Awanqi", Announcer, digital

She is an inspiration for me for the use of digital painting techniques, the modeling for clothing and there use of elements for the composition.

Jorge González Camarena, 1960, acrylic.

Camarena was one of the great muralist painters of the 20th century in Mexico. I love the uso of colors and the intentions of the poses and drawings. I admire the use of vibrant colors.

Paolo Caliari (Paolo Veronese), 1563, oil.

When I visited the Musée de Louvre I was astonished by this painting. Lots of details and perspectives (escorzos) with beautiful details in the clothing. Lots of references to the Renaissance. I like the paintings where one person can't see everything in one simple view, lots of details everywhere. I want to paint allegories with lots of details.

ABOUT ME

If I can study in France I want to develop one of this projects:

1 Our relation with images. The democratic use of photography allow people to take hundreds of images. They collect them in gadgets for many uses like sharing through social networks but also they forget for them forever. Photography allow people to "appropriate" landscapes, people, moments and artworks. It will be a painting project of people taking photos in museums and details, how the image allow to collect details of "important" art, sometimes to prove the presence with culture and places. John Berger´s "Ways of seeing" is one of the books that give me structure.

2 Our relation with objects. We live in an industrial, liberal, capitalist era. Many products are too important for people. They can be useless buy with great sense and importance for the owners. I'm interested in still life genre, I'm interested in objects and the relation with the space for living just like living rooms or tables.

As artist I'm interested in wrestling and contact sports, still lives, allegories and portraits. Also i love illustration and I want to work for tabletop games, card games and fantasy games just like Games Workshop or Wizards of the Coast.

I want to develop my abilities for formal painting, also I will take classes of other techniques that I love such as graving and sculpture. I want to know other cultures and profit from the facilities for Europe like the liberty of movement so I can meet new people and other colleagues. I will visit as many museums as I can and make grow my own collection of images for artworks, landscapes, skies and whatever will be interesting for me. I think it will be a big change for my life and will enrich my professional work, its a very different culture for work.

Some Projects:

In 2019 some of my works appeared in the Illustration magazine "Salon de L´Illustration" of Oil Literary Agency in South Korea.

And in the same year I Illustrate a story for the writer Marcelino Champo Rico

https://www.tierraadentro.cultura.gob.mx/la-muerte-roja/

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