Calamities NY. 1989

El Arte del Pequeño Grande

El artista expresionista  ordena archivando lo que le rodea de una forma más personal. Su ojo trata de ver las cosas como si las viera por primera vez, como las ve un niño distorsionándolas y desembarazándose de lo superfluo, para inventar algo más fácil y original.

Para mi  crear es expresar lo que uno lleva dentro ayudado de lo exterior y plasmar  ideas, sentimientos y conceptos en la tela de una forma mecánica y  simple a pesar de la destreza y conocimiento que se tenga. Ser  ingenuo siendo mayor cuesta, desembarazarse de representaciones estereotipadas mas.

Un niño egocéntrico  y no coartado expresa sus sentimientos  en dibujos expresivos de simplicidad de  formas a través del encanto y  la espontaneidad  . Totalmente  despreocupado por los detalles canta y baila mientras dibuja con desenvoltura y libertad,  para interpretar  las relaciones espaciales con un dinamismo privilegiado .

 Es  en esta etapa de transacción fácil y natural  donde el niño efectúa fáciles traducciones entre los distintos medios. Dibuja, canta y baila con desenvoltura confinándolas .

Se llama sinestesia, entre  los distintos sistemas sensoriales en el que los colores pueden evocar sonidos, y los sonidos colores. Este estallido de actividad artística , constituye el enigma central del desarrollo artístico.

Un adulto debe buscar la inocencia y  simplicidad en su rebuscada madurez llena de preocupaciones. La sensibilidad artística y percepción estética aumentan con la edad ,pero desgraciadamente  van en paralelo con la disolución del egocentrismo y perdida de originalidad.

 Una pintura vivaz, triste iracunda o potente dentro de su simplicidad puede ser una gran obra.

  Ciega de estereotipos, inventando metáforas infantiles dando rienda suelta al inconsciente,  totalmente desinhibida ,  y posiblemente bailando apareció "Self  Po rtrait with Animal and Frame .Espontanea y simple.

THe Cutest Painting Ever.

 

Antonio Leyva Sanjuan.Spanish Gallerist Madrid.

When we paint a face, we have to be aware of its characteristics. The permanent traits or the structure of the head. The changing features which depend on emotions. We emit different expressions in accordance with what we feel. The essence, or the essential. The personality, a sense of constancy which rules over a change of appearance. The personality is the tone, the way of speaking, the appearance, vivacity, tension, elasticity. T he aura.

Since we perceive all these characteristics and constant expressions at the same time, when I paint a portrait, I exaggerate it, distort and simplify it, sometimes reducing and suppressing, at other times leaving the painting deliberately incomplete because if you try to obtain a convincing physiognomy, the more you add, the more you lose the essence. 

My twenty years of exile as a Spanish artist.

From the vague idea, the work develops on its own accord under my orders. Artistic synthesis works burn from inner necessity. If anything, consciousness of the subject is disrupting and confusing, I need more concentration on the impression to intensify expression rather than on the physiognomy of the subject itself. 

Color is an independent form of expression too, needs  to work effortlessly as a  unity between color and form .

My work is about an Expression, explosion, eruption, unpredictable irresistible power, explosiveness, spiritual urgings and furious energetic attitudes  of mind more than an artistic form. I can´t stand the banal and mundane, I rather remain enthusiastic with my ego than represent objects precisely and unsentimentally in all their details.

The Way I Paint.

My very personal way.

Of course I am concerned with protest or drama, I grasp what I see or feel from the external world  of  forces  and  forms that influence me,  trying constantly to collect  new experiences,  and engage  them with my  inner world in  harmony .

 Predominantly the inner impression  is what prevails.

You need a strong and original temperament, and immense artistic sensibility, you have to be  pathologically emotional, go to  greatest happiness and deepest depressions, in order to create expressions

  free of irrelevancy, to express nothing but the essentials,  and achieve mutual interpenetration of these two kinds of experience. The inner and the external.

I have good visual memory and fast eyes, a positively hallucinatory quality, fast observation of movement, and sometimes a monumental force of expression solely by means of color.

I don´t do sketches to record my impressions. It is an original and different way to create something that can´t be taught. We need a lot of practicing , seizing things quickly, and produce lots of works from memory in bold strokes, bright pure colors, and simplified natural forms. It  is not schematics  and destructive forms with wild and uncontrolled storms of colors. It is just forms of sensitivity.

One needs to have mastery in anatomy in order to be able to invent new own beings, a system of rules of forms, which would still be natural in their effect because they are constructed in accordance with the rules of nature.

 I don´t want apathetic expressionless models, forms which represent nothing, any feminine coquetry, what I  want is  to sacrifice the power of explicit statement or to represent an idea without the object.

Art is the gift of something new, not the reproduction of something already in existence. A creator, without the needing of all the relics of tradition and the past. He must have in himself the  immediate and entire foundation on which he builds  the threatened condition of existence.