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Santiago
Izquierdo
Santiago
Izquierdo was born in Burgos, Spain, on April 20, 1948. He lived
his childhood and adolescence in Spain’s central region, a very
extensive area known as Castille.
Castille
is a place where the sun shines very brightly and the land is
red and rich; where the color yellow takes over the countryside
in the summertime and where trees reveal their various shades
of color in autumn. This range of color that characterizes Castille’s
different seasons marked Izquierdo forever.
Light is one of the key elements in Izquierdo’s painting; a natural,
strong light that contributes feeling and emotion to the observation
of Castillian landscapes. Warm colors are mixed for a clear purpose:
to add light to such landscapes, a purpose that is beautifully
accomplished. Color is another of Izquierdo’s key elements. His
broad chromatic palette shows lively and warm colors which are
used with great artistic strength.
The
artist starts from a Castillian naturalist landscape and moves
on to create a schematic composition, which in some of Izquierdo’s
paintings becomes abstract landscape representations. Brush strokes
are free and the composition falls apart into color-dominated
levels, leading to an abstract landscape.
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