97 Paintings Of Artist Santiago Carbonell | A Contemporary Spanish Realistic Painter | ArtLiveAndBeauty

 

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Artist Santiago Carbonell is a Spanish talented contemporary. Santiago Carbonell was born in 1960 in Quito, Ecuador. Carbonell, a gifted Ecuadorian artist who moved to Mexico in 1986. Carbonell studied art in Barcelona, where he was part of a group of young painters who were inspired by informationism's ideals. He was granted Spanish citizenship, although he has been living and working in Mexico since 1986, when he married Mara Gabriela. He is the father of four Mexican children and lives in the Mexican city of Querétaro.

Santiago Carbonell began painting at the age of six and grew up in Ecuador, Spain, the United States, and Italy before settling in Mexico. His persistent research, iron discipline, and polished self-taught skill have led him to tour the world, stunning the audience with a personal sense of painting. Santiago Carbonell is a notable exponent of the hyper-realistic movement, however he claims that his aesthetics are centred on innovating rather than imitating what reality or photography convey. Among the honours he has received are the Catalan American Institute of Cooperation Award in 1982 and the Reina Sofa Scholarship for Fine Arts in 1980.

Anthony Tapies and paintings by Tachism followers were the artists who had the biggest effect on him. Santiago is inspired by the avant-garde and enjoys experimenting with new materials, methods, and textures. In his own realistic paintings, he mixes aspects of romanticism and minimalism in a harmonic manner. At first look, Carbonell appears to be a realism painter influenced by nineteenth-century romantic and neoclassical art, who is obsessed with surprising detail. He uses textiles to cover or uncover his female models, who appear to float in the foreground of a Mexican plateau scene; against the softness of the fabric and flesh, Santiago Carbonell opposes the hardness of the earth, stone, and pebble, all framed by the softness of a dying light.

Santiago Carbonell's painting career began with in 19th century realism; now, he works in the current domain of "photorealism," in which he reaches great mastery, particularly in the accuracy and clarity of the details he paints. On the delicate texture of the linen he employs, his oil paintings shine out.

His nude takes on a life of its own. Carbonell paints solo ladies, couples, and self-portraits, but he also catches their emotions, feelings, and even thoughts, In his landscapes, in which he totally avoids the human figure, he brings the rocks and hills to life using lighting and shadows. The ocher tones, which tend towards a light gold, open up the spaces.