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William Rafael Marquina Buitrago
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Author: William Marquina Title: Picasso’s Chats Technique: oil on canvas Dimensions: 103 x 170 cm (40.55 x 66.92 in) Year: 2020 Key words: Pablo Picasso, Picasso, cubism, Dora Maar, Marie Therése-Walter, portrait, 20th century, Yellow Jersey, Woman Crying, the dream. networks. Description: Until now, in his "Picasso Copy" series, the artist had made two copies as a study of Picasso's work, ("The Crying Woman" and "The Yellow Jersey", both made in 2018). Now William reopens this series with a new production dedicated to reinterpreting Marie therese-walter in "The Dream", integrating the two copies of Dora Maar, in which he explores the concept of chats as an element that is combined with the fact of establish mass communication of emotions through social networks. The artist seeks to migrate the sense of portraiture that Picasso himself initially gave to each character, to later highlight them as relevant characters in the space of painting, where the emotional force with which each one expressed himself, now has relevance, highlighting these from a vision of what Picasso really wanted: to be able to communicate in each portrait all the feelings he wanted to express, each painting was a kind of compressed messages, with many meanings, similar to today's chats. William believes that each portrait of Picasso can be studied from an analogy with the new popular trends to communicate emotions through social networks, in which popular emoticons and emojis are often used, the well-known animated figures with which we express all kinds of emotions when it comes to spreading the messages on the networks. For William, most of Picasso's works are indirect predecessors of the rise of emotional description through images, they are like complex synthetic emoticons. Each portrait of Picasso's women are intentionally complete messages of disgust, anger, contempt, but also of love, understanding, sweetness, serenity, beauty, etc., both of what the artist himself felt, as well as of the emotional state, of his character through the different deformations in faces, hands and body in general. The three portraits appear in the foreground, highlighting the entire space of the painting, so that the three figures are gathered in front of the viewer, giving the sensation of unity and familiarity. At the end of the space between the two figures of Dora Maar is that of Picasso, who appears painting bathed in white light behind him, like the onniscient hermes of his messages that remain for the posterity of the erte. The realization of this painting required four months of constant, careful and very meticulous work. It is signed front and back, not stretched over a frame or framed. Your shipment will be rolled. You can see the videos of this artist, available at the following links: https://youtube.com/watch?v=if3Xf7513H4&feature=youtu.be https://youtube.com/watch?v=td76FeUg7Dw&t=65s https://youtube.com/watch?v=KnmMAxeu2nk https://youtube.com/watch?v=JmjZ1ir3Tu8 https://youtube.com/watch?v=bGY1nRWEHC0
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:12 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:17.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
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William Marquina was born in Mérida, Venezuela. Attracted by the works of great masters such as Picasso and Leonardo, at the age of 11 he participated in an outdoor Sunday painting workshop. After graduating in visual arts from the Universidad de Los Andes, he studied a master's degree in philosophy, followed by an unfinished doctorate, and was a short-term visual arts professor at the same university. From now on, William will pursue his passion for art by experimenting with different themes, techniques, styles and media. Disappointed by the unstable situation in his country, he emigrated to the city of Quito in 2019 where he currently lives and produces his works in the Oskan-huera painting studio, cloistered during the pandemic of 2020 and 2021, he will insist on his series Perceptions William's production has been experimentally versatile and challenges us with series characterized by the desire to search, study and complement the archaic and contemporary. His series are notable: Brillo, Picasso Copy, Matisse Copy, Da Vinci Copy and Aperceptions. In the latter, he highlights us in painting, the subjective complexity in the world of perceptions. In 2023 he exhibited his individual retrospective "Imbrications in painting" in the city of Quito; the International Painting exhibition at Casal Català Quito, 2021 and "Exhibition of Ecuadorian Painting" at the Mayor's Office of Quito, 2019. Other important individuals were: "Cartographies of the Terrestrial and Transterranean", Merida 2012; "Care. Path and Limit", 2007 and "Essences", 2007. Awarded the First Prize of Arts for University Students, in 2001.
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