Alberto Pousa

1968. Pontevedra. Spain. Self-portrait.The reason why I am not aware of the temperature of an object when it is the same as that of my body is not that my bodys temperature literally needs to change in order to perceive something as hot or cold. The reason is rather that my sense-faculty needs not already to be exposed to that temperature if it is to become aware of it.Aristotle.I am interested in breaking with the actual aspects of painting by developing a technique based only on the different temperature I can achieve working with acrylic.Not other material is used but acrylic.One has heard of the Temperamental Artist but what does an artist mean when the word temperature is used?We think of temperature as a measure of comfort; sometimes it is qualitative (cold, hot, warm, and sometimes quantitative: i.e., 100 degrees F.)The artist thinks of the qualitative definition: cool and warm. In a sense, temperature in art is in relation to the color - blue meaning cool or cold, yellow and red as warm or hot. However, because the manufacture of paint pigments is not a perfect science, there are cool yellows, cool reds, and (not often) warm blues.All pigments have some impurities (some intentional) and hence, we have a red which contai...

I studied philosophy and theology at Miltown Institute in Dublin as well as Tourism in Switzerland. Private Studies of Art since 1996.I am fascinated with any limit of language.,