Saturn Devouring His Son. Current Psychotic Realism series Print

The title has taken the same name as a well known painting by the spanish artist Francisco Goya. It belongs to the "Black Paintings” series. He did not write about these paintings, is not known to have spoken about them, and made no effort to name them. Names were chosen by other people years after his death, based upon the presumed content and meaning of each work. My piece is a reinterpretation of Goya´s violent and disturbing picture. A distorted figure clustered against a black background was created and mixed on the computer, using photo-retouching application. Then every part was meticulously drawing like the previous sketch, which could be described as painted collage. Current Psychotic Realism series include paintings which no doubt reflected an increasingly sick and paranoid society. The abstraction is joined by dismembered figurative images. This iconic game articulates different degrees of concretion of reality in the same work. The Yellow shape crossing and breaking the composition is a “retain blemish” or non expressive shape. The first view expressiveness is not exactly the way how these painting are made. I also would like to outline that the black shape is painted saving the raw canvas.