Ignacio Navarro

Born January 25, 1953 in Crdoba, Andaluca, Spain

Jess Troncoso and Rafael Cabrerra share their views on the artwork of a Spanish painter.
By Jess Troncoso, Ph.D., writer and art critic
As a writer and art critic, it is an honor for me to write about the painter and ceramicist don Ignacio Navarro Holgado.
Ignacio Navarro is a fine and creative Andalucian artist with a profound and refined sensibility. He has found his own unique artistic style through drawing. We can call it "fantastic realism." He shows the same talent for detail as the expressionists. In his work we see magic, forcefulness, and a richness of imagination rather like fairy tales written in poetry, like the Proustian search for the purest childhood dreams and, perhaps also childhood memories - many frustrated memories - from the realm of fantasy.
In Navarro-the-Cordoban's universe the fantastic, the poetic, the critical - as a medium of the anthropological and philosophical - serve as the warp through which are woven the technical elements of color, composition, drawing, and plastic material. These are then fused with his ancestral Califal and Andalucian wisdom.
His experimentation with technique and process (oil, drawing, water color, engr...

Born January 25, 1953 in Crdoba, Andaluca, Spain. In his family there were previous artists, such as his aunt Aurelia Navarro, wellknown and recognized painter of XIX-XX Century. She won several Honorific Mention and two times
Third goals from National Exhibition of Fine Art, in Madrid years 1904, 1906,1908.

Ignacio Navarros artistic talents were recognize early on. Starting at age seven, he participated in the Infant and Youth Fine Arts Awards in Crdoba and earned the Honor Diploma in 1961, 1963, 1964 and 1967. As a grade school student, he studied painting and drawing under the renowned Crdoba painter Miguel del Moral, who founded, with other artists, the cultural revierw, known as Grupo Cntico, 1947.

As a young man, from 1971 through 1973, Navarro studied at the School of Fine Arts in Crdoba, Granada and the Fine Art College of Santa Isabel de Hungra in Seville.
For the next 20 years, Navarro traveled throughout Europe Africa and Asia
refining his skills, learning new techniques and gaining new artistic and philosophical perspectives.
It is a prolific period of artistic growth for Navarro.
Collections of drawing and oil paintings were begun during this time in the United Kingdon, Italy, Portugal, Fr...