gouache without title Painting

GOUACHE WITHOUT TITLE: About 5 years ago I began to learn metal engraving with one of the most important artists in Brazil, Lêda Watson, a completely lucid octogenarian and still producing works of great artistic value. After more than forty years of teaching, she decided to end her educational activities and received in her atelier only a few friends and students to talk to and to print sessions. At one of these meetings, as I helped her organize a cupboard, I found a gouache box, Caran D'Ache, intact but forgotten. I asked for it and I won it as a gift from the teacher. The next day I took the gouache box to the school where I taught and socialized the material with the students, while I also experimented with the newly acquired inks. This work, which I now show on Saatchi's website, is the result of this working session with Leda Watson's gouache box, smaller touches of ink and black conté crayon, on watercolor paper from the Hahnemühle, a German paper factory that exists since 1584. All the works I produce on paper are stored in a map library until they are exposed or sold, when they will be framed or mounted on another type of support such as cardboard. In the case of frames, as I work intensely the chromatic relations, I limit them to three possibilities according to the situation that will be exposed: black, white or raw wood, because I consider that colored frames can affect the work strangely, although a certain friend, after buy one of my works, put a blue frame that looked great. In short, they are indications and principles and not absolute rules. Obviously, when it comes to working on paper, glass is fundamental and I prefer the ordinary glass to the anti-glare, which takes away some of the brightness and the intensity of the colors. This gouache is part of one of the lines of development of my pictorial and imagery research that has origin and inspiration in the constructivism and its postmodern variants, as well as in the surrealism, as far as the form, as far as the color, with which I have been developing intense research on harmonic relations. In this work I had in mind, all the time, the work of Xull Solar, an important Argentine artist who has died. Although the result does not directly refer to his work, it was in my mind throughout the creative process.

Painting:Gouache on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:15.7 W x 11.8 H x 0 D in

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