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Goyo Dominguez
Acuarela. Mixed media on wood panel painting. Beautiful head's woman and flowers

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Acuarela. Measurements in centimeters: 122 x 48 x 0.5 cm. // In inches: 48.03 x 18.9 x 0.2 " Framed: 144 x 70 x 4.5 cm. // In inches: 56.69 x 27,56 x 1.77 " "Acuarela", painted by the Spanish artist Goyo in 2000, is a picture that smoothly joins the figurative and abstract worlds. He uses a mixed media with collage on a wood panel which was previously treated by the artist to give it texture before starting to apply color. At the top, occupying more than a third of the picture, a head portrait of a beautiful young women that looks at the viewer with calm countenance. In the center, what could be an academic drawing of the same women's body, beautiful like her, but missing her head. In the lower third, some flowers. While, the background, with great chromatic richness, is treated abstractly with splashes, scratches and blots. The corners of the picture tend to feature graphic details. Goyo plays with forms and colors, organizing them to represent, in a simple way, harmony, beauty and serenity; but he also shows another unknown reality. Here are few words from the artist: “From a very young age, I began to feel attracted by the art of painting, and as of today it continues being my greatest passion.  The first thing I do when I start a painting is to cover the surface with spots of paint, lacking concrete form. Later, I calmly observe these spots and I begin to perceive images that little by little I transform into concrete forms, for example, a landscape, a fruit, figures, and faces.  During this creative process, I try to respect as much as possible the expressive energy from those original spots, as they are the roots that sustain the work. I like to use different pictorial techniques: coal, graphite, watercolor, acrylic, oil…They are different paths that always convey you to the same destiny: the emotion of expressing with images your own ideas and feelings, your own life experiences”. Goyo In 2002, Ediciones Sammer published a monograph about Goyo, the first of a collection entitled "Great Contemporary Artist" which has 240 pages as well as reproductions from most of his work from its beginning until publication. That same year, The Spanish Philatelic Postal and Telegraphic Service issued a beautiful series of eight self-adhesive stamp depicting reproductions of eight works by Goyo Domínguez which have "music" as a common theme , as well as a stamp to commemorate Christmas.
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