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Mexico
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 13.8 W x 17.7 H x 0.8 D in
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Remembering Garrick, that clown of the English theater. My inspiration is this wonderful poem: To Laugh While Crying. Juan de Dios Peza. (Mexican writer). Watching Garrik – an actor from England – the people would say applauding: “You are the funniest one on earth and the happiest one…” And the comedian would laugh. Victims of melancholy, the highest lords, during their darkest and heaviest nights would go see the king of actors and change their melancholy into roars of laughter. Once, before a famous doctor, came a man with eyes so somber: “I suffer – he said -, an illness so horrible as this paleness of my face” “Nothing holds any enchantment or attractiveness; I don’t care about my name or my fate I die living an eternal melancholy and my only hope is that of death”. – Travel and distract yourself – I’ve traveled so much! – Search for readings – I’ve read so much! – Have a woman love you – But I am loved – Get a title – I was born a noble – Might you be poor? – I have richnesses – Do you like compliments? – I hear so many! – What do you have as a family? – My sadness – Do you go to the cemeteries? – Often, very often. – Of your current life, do you have witnesses? – Yes, but I don’t let them impose their burdens; I call the dead my friends; I call the living my executioners. – It leaves me – added the doctor – perplexed your illness and I must not scare you; Take today this advise as a prescription only watching Garrik you can be cured. -Garrik? -Yes, Garrik… The most indolent and austere society anxiously seeks him; everyone who sees him, dies of laughter; he has an amazing artistic grace. – And me? Will he make me laugh? -Ah, yes, I swear it; he and no one but him; but… what disturbs you? -So – said the patient – I won’t be cured; I am Garrik! Change my prescription. How many are there who, tired of life, ill with pain, dead with tedium, make others laugh as the suicidal actor, without finding a remedy for their illness! Ay! How often we laugh when we cry! Nobody trust the merriment of laughter, because in those beings devoured by pain, the soul groans when the face laughs! If faith dies, if calm flees, if our feet only step on thistles, the tempest of the soul hurls to the face, a sad lighting: a smile. The carnival of the world is such a trickster, that life is but a short masquerade; here we learn to laugh with tears and also to cry with laughter. Juan de Dios Peza.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:13.8 W x 17.7 H x 0.8 D in
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Mexico
Alfredo Alonso López, an industrial engineer and mexican plastic artist, born in Mexico City in 1969, a painter since he was a child, has taken several courses and painting workshops, but his training has been mainly self-taught. Alfredo Alonso recognizes himself as a lover of mexican culture and that is why most of his work has been focused on representing symbols, characters, dreams, motives and places of his country. His work has been exhibited with great success in Mexico, Europe and the United States, participating in different events such as the National Convention of Tourism in Mexico City, at the Cultural August Festival in the City of Ameca, Jalisco, Mexico, in Crisolart Galleries Barcelona, Spain, at Crisolart Galleries New York, at The Poet's Den Gallery & Theater, New York and recently at the Castello di Soncino (Rocca Sforzesca), Italy. In addition, Alfredo Alonso was selected by the Avon Company to intervene the sculpture of a kiss in support of the Avon Crusade Against Breast Cancer 2013 and his work has been published in different magazines, including the magazine Arthmosphere the Art Perspective and in the magazine Peruvian "Pacific for America and for the world." The beautiful work of Alfredo Alonso is characterized by offering a contemporary vision of Mexico based on its history, culture and traditions.
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