Category: + Concepts
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General Chronology of the Renaissance:
The Renaissance, as a historical and cultural period, spanned approximately the 14th to the 16th century, connecting the Middle Ages with the Modern Age in Europe. (*) 14th Century: Beginning of the Renaissance in only some areas of Italy, with a focus on the recovery of classical culture, a product of the wave of Greeks…
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Roots of the Renaissance
Roots of the Renaissance: (1) The printing press, invented by Gutenberg in the 15th century, was fundamental to the Renaissance, enabling the rapid dissemination of ideas and knowledge, facilitating access to information, and promoting literacy. (2) The fall of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire, occurred with the capture of Constantinople…
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The turn of the abstract image: From Subtraction to Addition.
The turn of the abstract image: From Subtraction to Addition. (1) Abstraction is a process of simplification, eliminating the accidental and attempting to preserve the essential image & (2) Modern abstraction does not go from the figurative to the essential, but rather attempts to create new visual worlds……In the first one image, we start from…
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III moments
Here, we have 3 moments of the image: in the first one, there is a wall that allows us to see the horizon (it’s a real window), then, the painting (which is a virtual window) which is the negation of the wall and which allows us to remember a place, a person or being in a fictional world…
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3 moments of the painting
There are multiple ways to classify the development of painting over the centuries. I present a personal summary that emphasizes the interaction between figure and ground, canvas and wall. Here we find three moments of the image: first, the wall, which allows us to see the horizon (it is a real window); then, the painting…
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Suprapictorialism: Two Simultaneous Images
On January 6, 2025 I wrote this post, today (May 7, 2025) I apply this idea (two simultaneous images) to the style I have created, Suprapictorialism, where one image will appear in the painting and another will be born from the distortions and holes that reveal certain spaces in the wall.
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Third Moon
On August 26, 2023, I wrote this post. Today (May 7, 2025) I’m adding a THIRD moon, that of thermochromic colors or paints.
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Suprapictorialism: Our seven guiding points
Suprapictorialism: Our seven guiding points 1. We distinguish between the pictorial image and the totalizing image; we are interested in the latter. 2. Painting is not the negation of the wall, but rather the wall participates in its meaning. 3. Therefore, painting can present holes, irregularities, and other distortions. 4. The frame is open,…
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Simultaneous images
Simultaneous images: Like sound waves, a painting can be composed of more than one image, this is similar to the result of an orchestra with its nuances of colors, shapes, saturation, composition and luminosity. But what is proposed here are two (or more) orchestras at the same time, that is, two o more different images…