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In pictorial art, there has always been the rivalry between the currents that develop, what art critics would call periods, from my point of view, is the evolution of painting, pure dialectics that is nothing more than the constant movement of things.
A single genre of painting could compete in its time with another totally different art. The impressionism pictorial movement led by Claude Monet (1840-1926) born in France this style was the only one that was on a par with a newly manufactured optical-mechanical device and that was already taking its first steps in an artistic utility, it is the photographic camera, at that time the impressionist painters struggled to achieve the illusion of reality through spots against the photograph that in essence was a totally new but equally surprising element to portray more accurately anything.
The rebirth of realism
Through the years and with the tendency in painting directed towards the current abstract art that imposed as I spoke in my last post our super painter Picasso and other artists who flooded the galleries with this innovative and striking art. In this way, it seems that the realism movement that perdures for almost 3 centuries was destined to disappear.
But over time things changed and new artists took up the vision of realism and began to emerge more and more proposals that ended up becoming Hyperrealism.
Francisco Casas is one of these painters who renewed the essence of realism but making it more grotesque.
The hyperrealism of Francisco Casas
Juan Francisco Casas Ruiz was born in La Carolina, Jaén, on September 21, 1976) and graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Granada in 1999, as the first in his class and obtaining the National Prize for the best university transcript in Spain from the Ministry of Education and Science, an award which was presented to him by the Minister of Culture, Pilar del Castillo.
It is possible that, at first glance, the works of Casas may look like photographs, but if you detail at a reasonable distance you realize that we are photographs if not drawings made with ink pen, that which we use in the tasks of the university or to note anything when we talk on the phone.
Casas began his career in the traditional way, painting different techniques, but at one point he opted to use pens to draw as something witty and funny at the same time, but soon Casas was drawing realism from photos he took of his friends, this happened about 10 years ago. Demonstrating that it doesn't matter what material is used if not what is done with it.
He is currently one of the top artists in Spain and the world, exhibiting his works in galleries all over the world, his works are already quoted in thousands of euros, there are works that are of great dimensions reaching 4 meters in height, he spends an approximate 20 pens and it takes him two weeks to finish works of great size. The only drawback is that as it is ink to make mistakes is something that can not be allowed by them this artist is extremely careful in the proportions and textures.
Casas a wide international repercussion, proof of it are the numerous samples in which he has been present. Some examples are Catarsis-Rituals of Purification in ARTIUM Museum in 2006. In 2008, in Las Vegas in The Joy of The Sex Collective. In 2010, he participated in Realism. La Aventura del al Realidad, a collective exhibition that took place in Germany at the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung Museum in Munich and at the Kunsthalle in Emden, where he shared space with important artists such as Courbet, Hopper, Dix, and Estes.
In 2013 she took part with Dalí, Picasso and Miró in the Spanish art collective of the 20th and 21st century, "Hola! Spain - Spanish Modern and Contemporary Art" at the Cube Museum of the Seongnam Art Centre (South Korea) and in "De madonna a Madonna (De)construcciones de lo Femenino en la Sociedad contemporánea" at the Da2 Domus Artium 2002 museum in Salamanca.
As we ask to perceive the work of Casas is a true rebirth and birth of a technique, Hyperrealism, although probably tends to disappear for its little symbolism may remain as one of the most imposing and influential arts of the twenty-first century.
if you want to know more about this outstanding artist visit his website Fracisco Casas Web
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