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This painting entitled “Elephant trekking on Montmartre or Paseo en Elefante por Montmartre” takes part of the new series of paintings that i’m doing inspired by real historical events. It’s painted with acrylic on smooth linen (80 x 100 cm). With this picture I’m trying to represent the birthplace of the Art Nouveau movement after the later half of the Victorian age (this period coincided with the first portion of the Belle Époque era of continental Europe). In the main scene there, appears some people looking at two plants in Art-Nouveau style, that emerge through a hole in the ground, just in the middle of the “Place Blanche” de París (in front the new “Moulin Rouge”, after the total renovation of the old White Queen Dance Hall “La Reine Blanche” in 1889). Behind, and to the left of the plants, you can see a female avatar that is riding the wooden elephant on Montmartre, that was purchased from the Exhibition Universelle (World’s Fair) of 1900 and situated at the back of the building, and not visible from the street. The Elephant had a spiral staircase entrance to it inside in one of the legs and only men allowed to go inside…
Print:Giclee on Canvas
Size:16 W x 12 H x 1.25 D in
Size with Frame:17.75 W x 13.75 H x 1.25 D in
Frame:White
Canvas Wrap:Black Canvas
Ready to Hang:Yes
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My name is José Galán, I was born in Barcelona (Spain) in 1977. I am a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes acrylic, oil and watercolour paintings, 3D computer graphics and augmented reality. I began painting canvases and graffiti in 1992, and I have been surrounded by artists, professors and paintings since that time. From 1993 to 1998, I attended the Fine Arts and Graphic Design School “Groc” in Barcelona as a painting and ceramics major. In 2006, I earned a DNAP, at the “École supérieure des Beaux Arts de Perpignan” (France) in Fine Arts. In 2007 I earned a master’s degree in 3D Computer Graphics at the Autodesk Training Center of Barcelona. After working on my own projects for a couple of years, I co-created my first startup, Mars’ Toad, in 2009. The aim of this startup company was to develop different and funny games for iPhone and iPad like Captain Glyph, a fast paced action-puzzle-word game. The project that I am working on right now, called Imaginary destinations is a personal metaphor of the 3D virtual worlds, and was devised with the intention of experiencing in different scales, decontextualizing and recontextualizing real and/or unreal elements; to get into the world of the very small or outsize, modifying the conceptual and emotional contexts of the scenes and elements, changing colors, playing with lighting, and adding life to generate positive synergies. Each piece of work combines at least two or three disciplines or techniques, such as acrylic & watercolour painting, 3D computer graphics, augmented reality and digital photography, and is expected to mark the start of promising new research directions for the next pieces of work.
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