“The stars – Vega, Altair and Deneb – are among the brightest distant suns visible with the naked eye. In Japanese lore, Vega is identified with the Sky King’s daughter Orihime, the Weaving Princess; and Altair with Hikoboshi, the Cow Herder. At nightfall, when darkness is complete, the Silver River (Milky Way) courses between them. The enchanting and heart-rending tale spun about Orihime and Hikoboshi is the basis for Tanabata, or Star Festival.”
Poster art for a 2006 performance of Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan concert hall. From Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography
I’m not a fan of colorful art, but all this just gives me some early 2000s nostalgia, when I was little & most of my coloring books’ covers looked exactly like this, and I loved them so much, even though the paper of said books was way too thin to be painted on with anything but colored pencils (and even so - it sucked anyway, because the pencils looked faded on that thing).
these heists, the future they promised. the five of them, different as they were, all knew what it meant to have greatness expected of them. immigrants, their children, always had to be extraordinary. even then, they still might not be enough.
Another painting, la Habitación de Van Gogh (The Bedroom of Van Gogh). When we tackle the collaboration between Toni Montero and Daniel Peribáñez, maybe we should talk about a three-way collaboration: Vincent Van Gogh – Peribáñez – Montero; or has uncle Vincent left these two boys (Toni and Daniel) alone in his guest-room and of course they have messed about, the Room in turmoil, everything scrambled but eith a lot of style.
A boy in his mother’s arms while his father, dressed up as a harlequin, looks at him absorbed. Two characters, one in the centre of the painting, the other at the back to the right balancing on a ball, ball from another world? and the one sat to the right we have also seen in another place, and the staring monkey who looks older and wiser, also. They all bring with them parts of the spaces they have inhabited, like memories of places where they have been.
No other ibicencan artist represents the cultural mixture of Ibiza like Romanie. With an English mother, a Spanish father, living in a pages house surrounded by fields and forest, away from it all but in a place like Ibiza, 15 minutes away from everything.
In the young Romanie coexist the earthly Ibiza, the contrasting seasons, months, moons, of the island; the Ibiza that knows its birds, that recognizes the aromatic plants of the forest and finding asparagus and mushrooms. The cosmopolitan Ibiza full of “paradise seekers” and people arrived from other places, lands, with their stories, their life experiences, their beliefs. The Ibiza we here call “phoenician” trader, individualist, pragmatic. And the touristic, the madness, the great orgy that becomes Ibiza every Summer and by which we are surrounded.
Ninguna artista ibicenca representa el mestizaje cultural de Ibiza como Romanie. De madre inglesa, y padre español, viviendo en una casa pagesa rodeada de campo y de bosque, lejos del mundanal ruido pero en un lugar como Ibiza, a 15 minutos de todo.
En la joven Romanie conviven la Ibiza pegada a la tierra, a los contrastes de las estaciones, de los meses, las lunas; la Ibiza que conoce sus pájaros, que sabe reconoces las plantas aromáticas del bosque y encontrar espárragos o setas.
La Ibiza cosmopolita llena de “buscadores de paraísos” y de gente llegada de otros lugares, otras tierras, con sus historias, sus vivencias, sus creencias. La Ibiza que aquí llamamos “fenicia” comerciante, individualista, pragmática. Y la turística, la locura, la gran bacanal en que se convierte Ibiza todos los veranos y en la que nos vemos envueltos.
To paint is a necessity to keep myself equilibrated between this world and the “interior”. - by Romanie Sanchez Smele; for more artwork by Romanie click here
Pintar es una necesidad para mantenerme equilibrada entre este mundo y el “interior”. - by Romanie Sanchez Smele; para ver más, haz click aqui
Another tribute to Picasso, a collage filled some forms and other texts written by Elvira Escandell, corner right: Picasso said “If I had been born Chinese, I would not be a painter but a writer".
Otro homenaje a Picasso, un collage repleto de textos algunos impresos y otros escritos por Elvira Escandell, en la esquina a la derecha: Picasso decía “ si hubiera nacido chino no seria pintor sino escritor”
Cézanne said for young people who visited him in recent years: “The eyes are not enough, we need to reflect”. This is the text that has stuck Elvira Escandell lower left in this beautiful collage on handmade paper. See more artwork from Elvira Escandell at ibizagaleria.com
Los ojos no bastan, hace alta refleccionar “decía Cézanne a los jóvenes que lo visitaban en los últimos años, este es el texto que Elvira Escandell ha pegado abajo a la izquierda en este bonito collage sobre papel artesano. Ver mas en ibizagaleria.com
With his hand on his chest: A recreation of Velazquez, who serves Jesus Albarran excuse to deepen their vectoricism technique, in this case the figure has been stamped and sewn to the canvas. See more at Xarc Sargantana..
The term Digital Art, Vector Art provides digital imaging, which will not be formed by pixels, but from mathematically defined vectors and the basis of a series of dots and linked these by journey linear form polygons and monochromatic surfaces that shape the image that is sought.
The artistic tendency, very varied in its interpretation and application of computer graphics use this technology, I have called Vectorism
