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Spontaneous Nude B059 Print

Alejandro De Jesus

United States

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

The series of Spontaneous Nudes began as an attempt to capture some of the many gestures of the nude form in the acrylic medium. It was an attraction towards the drama of opposing tones. After working for many years with oil, this was my first serious way of working with acrylics. An experiment that brought new and challenging experiences to my career made me become nimbly flexible to accommodate the much shorter drying time of acrylic paint and the fast-changing images created by the posing models. The character of this new medium and expressionism allowed less time for analysis. My thought process began to rely on the spirit of instinct and emotion. I was forced into a more fluid, less exacting but freer expression of the objective reality. I worked on hundreds of charcoal drawings of the figures before I was brave enough to tackle the acrylic medium. While working every day on the models' forms, shortcuts began to appear. At times, I found the images were looking like abstract shapes. Such flexibility revealed an essential truth that I could not have captured through logical exactitude. I found myself simultaneously catching "complete" images in my mind. Some of the figures, at first glance may not be easily perceived when viewed individually. However, when a few of the pieces are observed as a whole, changes take place in front of your eyes and the subject is easier to distinguish. Thus, the apparent deformation or lack of detail in the figures is transformed into fully complete images. I can state without reservation that my effort has been worthwhile.

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Giclee on Canvas

Size:

12 W x 16 H x 1.25 D in

Size with Frame:

13.75 W x 17.75 H x 1.25 D in

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Alejandro De Jesús Alejandro De Jesús was born in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico but grew up in the town of Caguas. As a child he drew and painted all the images he liked: super heroes, faces, cars, monsters and the like. He remembers doing many illustrations at his grade school before every holiday. At the age of ten he received a scholarship from The City of Caguas to study art under the tutelage of Victor Torres Lizardi, a professional artist from Caguas who awakened in him, his everlasting love for art. Torres Lizardi led him in his first serious steps in art through working in mediums of charcoal, tempera, and oil. At fifteen he moved to New York City, where he was impressed by the masters' work shown at museums. Alejandro DJ studied at Famous Artists School in Westport, Connecticut, and The Art Students League of New York. Back in his home island, he studied at The Art Students League of San Juan, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Escuela de Artes Plásticas and the University of Puerto Rico, where he graduated with honors. He uses pastel, acrylic but mostly oil paints. Alejandro is a dedicated art teacher and a natural figurative and portrait artist but also likes painting any offbeat subject. In 1985 he founded Estudio Alejandro DJ, an art school in Caguas born of a genuine interest for a figurative art education. He dedicated 28 years of his life to teaching children and adults basic and advanced drawing and painting principles in the traditional method. In 1987 he received an award for his oil painting The Hat Salesman from The Art Students League of San Juan. This work and another of his oil paintings titled The Class were acquired by the Caguas Museum of Art  to be part of its permanent collection. Alejandro's work has been exhibited widely in group and solo shows in the United States and Puerto Rico. In 1997 he traveled to Europe where he visited over twenty five museums in France, Spain, Italy, Brussels and Holland. During this trip he had the opportunity to closely observe and analyze old masters paintings like Rembrandt, Velazquez, Sorolla, Goya, El Greco, Van Gogh, Caravaggio and Vermeer. Alejandro is an artist who claims that he follows the true fundamentals of oil painting and is very serious about his duty to teach them. He is a constant student of oil painting and for six years he wrote and videotaped these fundamentals for his Spanish speaking students.

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