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Creation Tapestry, c. 1100. Embroidered in wool and linen on a wool background, 12’ x 15’ 8". Currently in the Gerona Cathedral Treasury in Spain. Source.

“In Gerona, the Creation Tapestry, made with linen thread against a wool background, depicts a beardless Christ as Pantocrator in the center of a compositional wheel, filled with scenes from Genesis, including the Days of Creation, the Creation of Eve, and Adam Naming the Animals. In the corners, symbols of the four winds turn the wheel, suggesting the movement of the days. On three sides, marginal representations of the labors of the months and emblems of the annum and solstices continue to convey the passage of time. Curiously, in the bottom margin, the legend of the Discovery of the True Cross is shown. Although it is not certain where or how the tapestry was originally displayed, its complex iconography reveals a belief in the enduring lordship of Christ from the beginning to the end of Creation.” (Snyder, Art of the Middle Ages, 258)

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Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012)

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.

More artwork from Toni Montero here

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.

For more artwork by Romanie Sanchez click here

 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.

The fragility of ideas / La Fragilidad de las Ideas - 2009  - by Romanie Sanchez Smele

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

In my current artistic moment, I use the outcome of the primary images obtained with this new technology, later transferred to the work project to be operated, built in perfect harmony with photographic images or interpreted in a traditional manner, with different painting techniques, oil, acrylics, stamping on paper, canvas or other materials or, sometimes, printed by any means which would allow serial reproduction.

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En mi actual momento artístico, utilizo el resultado de las imágenes primarias obtenidas con esta tecnología novedosa , trasladándola después a la obra en proyecto para ser intervenida, incorporada en perfecta simbiosis con imágenes fotográficas o interpretada de forma tradicional, con diferentes técnicas pictóricas, oleo, acrílicos, troquelados en papel, lienzo u otros materiales o, a veces, impresa por cualquier medio que pueda permitir la reproducción seriada

Jesus Albarran

Elvira Escandell’s heat has a truly magical touch.

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”

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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

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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..

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John Lennon, a chromogenic print of Jesús Albarrán

VECTORISM

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

Jesús Albarrán

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                      Jesús Albarran - Infanta Margarita (Velazquez)

Walter Benjamin affirmed that “that all document of culture is at the same time a document of barbarity.” Popes, princes, and kings with absolute power, exerted despotically and even with cruelty, entered posterity associated and thanks to the artists at their service, artists sometimes anonymous and that rarely left a self-portrait.

With the arrival of photography more than a hundred and fifty years ago, apart from other factors – democratization of society and the techno-industrial revolution – visual artist became well-known stars, recognized around the world.
Artists that enjoyed a freedom of creation they had never had before and that promoted a visual revolution without precedents.
But lets remain in the Present…

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Juan Pantoja de la Cruz [Spanish. 1553 - 1608]
La Reina Isabel de Borbón. c. 1620

Medieval manuscript of the week is  British Library MS Additional 11695  f. 6, a labyrinth, from a Spanish manuscript dating from the late eleventh century.

Image source: British Library, image in the public domain.

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