I am more than delighted to post an interview with a very great artist on Artition. Maria Jose Aguilar is extremely talented in classical painting. Classical in every sense, as she paints in a style threatened with extinction that she calls symbolic realism. Her works are so impulsive and as they attempt to be so “out of time” they really reflect a complete attendance in our recent world, giving an insight of the life from spanish women covered in beauty and absolutism. Her methods are so traditional, the composures of the bodies, the places, the objects and the light create unique experience of art in a contemporary manner. Read more on what she has to say about it:
Artition:
How would you describe your work/art/style?
MJA: My works, both creative and technical process is elaborated and reflective. Pictures do not usually result by improvisation, even those that only purpose is to gain attention. The way I try mentally to process and manage the feelings and emotions that I perceive is to take the items carefully for each composition. They act as key elements of an internal language in the play, symbols belonging to a close, everyday reality, which will help decipher the message contained in each work, a message that attempts to go beyond the aesthetic contemplation. Hence the term symbolic realism.
Artition:
What or who inspires you?
MJA: Life, its intensity, with all that entails pain and joy. Sometimes the object
anodyne premonition makes me stop and enclosing a story worth telling.
Artition:
Is there a message you want to communicate with your art?
MJA: The creation of a work has a meaning for me always. It is a reflective dialogue with myself about everything that touches my heart. It is not always the same conversation, although on the same page. The viewer, from his own, perceive and recreate the table getting his own message, but if it was provided with the keys you placed in the context that inspired a painting, you qualify to be introduced, if desired, in the world the artist, perhaps giving a broader understanding of the painting.
Artition:
How do you like artition and what would you like to be added or changed?
MJA: Artition seems to me a wonderful opportunity to raise awareness of artistic diversity. I do not feel qualified to say what should be added or changed.
Artition:
Who would you like to change life with for one day?
MJA: In a world where events unfold at breakneck speed in its events that often prevents us from having a space to think, feel, dream, etc.., Would the message of my work they supposed an invitation to reflection.
Artition:
Who is your favourite artist?
MJA: Their are numerous artists that I admire. Some of them:
Spanish Artists: Velázquez, Murillo, Zurbarán, Valdés Leal, Madrazo, Goya, Sorolla, Picasso, Zóbel …
Other: Tiziano, Leonardo Da Vinci, Miguel Ángel, Rafael, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Durero, Ingres, Van Gogh, Degas, Tolouse Lautrec, …
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