Raquel Fariñas Portrait Paintings
Raquel Fariñas, Spanish artist, is very famous as an illustrator of the childish comtes. The artist says, “My paintings are the medium that I dispose off to reflect on the reality beyond rational knowledge, to portray the beauty I always seek. When I paint, every element of the reality I am depicting is revealed as a carrier of truth and beauty, which confers them a different sense than its mere appearance or utility. At this conceptual plane, everything is interrelated and I notice another existence that I’m unable to explain with words. Then, everyday life makes sense because I experience, like Rodin, that ‘it exists, above all, what the greatest part of people does not know to see: the unknown depths, the foundations of life’. So, what I can not express in concept, I do it with images, and it is here where the world of symbols appears; the concepts of unveiling and hiding are connected in a symbol. Symbols, myths, dreams reveal what escapes from immediate experience, to consciousness. This is how I create shapes in my art work. In a tree I find the Natural Law of Development and Growth. In the circular, round, the Cyclical Law of the Sun and the Moon, and their celestial movements; the cycles of food and water. Also the fabrics are important: everything is weaved, linked. There is no opposition between up and down, the one is a reflection of the other. To see and to contemplate is not the same. When I paint I attempt to contemplate, and I give this contemplation to other people, who will transform my signs in symbols and my symbols in signs. I never ask to follow my interpretations. You, the viewer, are the creator of a new meaning.”
2010s Folk Art Raquel Fariñas Portrait Paintings
Acrylic, Wood Panel
2010s Folk Art Raquel Fariñas Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Early 2000s Contemporary Raquel Fariñas Portrait Paintings
Acrylic, Panel
Late 19th Century Folk Art Raquel Fariñas Portrait Paintings
Gold Leaf
1970s Outsider Art Raquel Fariñas Portrait Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas, Wood Panel
1960s Outsider Art Raquel Fariñas Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic, Cardboard
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Raquel Fariñas Portrait Paintings
Panel, Acrylic, Gesso
2010s Outsider Art Raquel Fariñas Portrait Paintings
Acrylic, Paper
2010s Post-Impressionist Raquel Fariñas Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Raquel Fariñas Portrait Paintings
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
2010s Contemporary Raquel Fariñas Portrait Paintings
Wood Panel, Acrylic
2010s Outsider Art Raquel Fariñas Portrait Paintings
Paper, Acrylic
Artist Comments
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21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Raquel Fariñas Portrait Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Folk Art Raquel Fariñas Portrait Paintings
Tempera, Acrylic, Canvas
2010s Contemporary Raquel Fariñas Portrait Paintings
Wood Panel, Acrylic