Artist Juan Fortuny
Juan
Fortuny was born in Badalona, a small fishing town near to Barcelona. A work of
art signed by Fortuny is, first and foremost, a suite of details, each and
every one of which is of primary importance. A surprising and outstanding
composition, fruit of long years of experience with colours, canvas,
techniques, visits to galleries and museums. The route that leads to Juan
Fortuny today takes the traveller backwards in time, to his childhood. Four
years later his affair with drawings, his passion, triumphed and started a new
career as a painter. His home, a roomy and stately building dating back to
before the Twelfth Century, is close the Montserrat Mountain, a natural park
where pines and fir trees predominate. Juan Fortuny lives in constant contact
with nature. Realism is a mark of Fortuny’s work. Tidy painting, where the
central theme is treated exquisitely, with care, and as if in contrast, there
is the background, where the brush and stroke become freer, blending into
powerful and intense chromatic abstraction.
As far as subjects go, he feels equally at ease with a floral as with a
figurative subject, with a landscape or with horses, which are his weakness.
Horses galloping, horses peacefully grazing in a corral. Fortuny has
participated in exhibitions all around the world and his work figure in very
important private collections in Europe, USA, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Canada,
Australia.
No comments:
Post a Comment