Frascuelo: fiel a la tradición, firme ante la adversidad. Painting

Presentation. Karlos Arbizu (1963) has a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid with a specialty in Painting Restoration and Conservation. In his professional career he has held teaching positions at the university level. He has worked as a painter and restorer. He has also collaborated with national newspapers and press agencies. He has worked as a press photographer and as an advertising photographer In his career as a painter, he has held various exhibitions, both individual and collective, creating graphic work and painting in various techniques. His work is distributed in private collections. His work is fundamentally figurative and based on in-depth knowledge of the techniques and procedures he uses, seeking to carry out an exhaustive knowledge of these throughout history, for later implementation in his own works. Without allowing himself to be influenced by currents and passing fashions within art, he develops his production on the margin of all prevailing aesthetic conditioning. This results in a work that is always varied and evolving, without a hint of stagnation and full of sincerity. With complete attention to light and color, some influences from Spanish, European and Mexican painting by painters such as Joaquín Sorolla, Ramón Casas, Anders Zorn or Saturnino Herrán can be seen in Karlos Arbizu's work. Always maintaining respect for his own evolution and without attachment to any particular style or any specific topic. It is worth mentioning the expression in his portraits and figures, in which the gaze and expression become psychological studies of the person or animal represented. Likewise, his landscapes are the direct expression of light, moment and atmosphere. immortalizing, through color, the sensation produced in the soul of the author. And producing in the viewer a hypnotic effect of immersion in the work. All of the above materializes in a work that is always recognizable and different, that refines expression, originality, knowledge, craft, tradition and strength. In short, a work to be taken into account by any self-respecting collector.