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Felix Arauz
Felix Arauz (b. 1935, Guayaquil, Ecuador) Another
very important artist to come out of Guayaquil, Ecuador in the last
fifty years. Arauz is among the art circles of Oswaldo Guayasamin,
Enrique Tabara, Eduardo Kingman, Anibal Villacis and Juan Villafuerte.
Arauz studied at the School of Beautiful Arts and the School of
Modern Humanities. During his second year his father passed away
leaving Arauz feeling nostalgic and isolated. Arauz funneled his
emotions into his work creating some of the most beautiful heartfelt
and dreamlike imagery to date. Both his use of color and his compositions
are simply brilliant and leave a huge lasting impression on the
viewer. Arauz paints in many mediums but his preferred method is
oleo texturado, or oil paint with texture. It is, from the fastening,
of the intersection of the dream and the reflection, from where
the art emerges from. Every time (each Series, each picture), elaborates
with greater clarity its formal elements before combining them on
the supports, and this exercise does not diminish, in minimum, its
spontaneous, constant of its vast splendid pictorial work. Very
instinctively it exerts plenary session dominion of his calligraphic
touch that is, without a doubt, one of the most appraised gifts
of the great artists. But that gift comes with the artist, and it
is necessary to take care of it, to nurture it, by means of a work
destiny, and this is important in the life of Felix Arauz:
to work indefatigable, enthusiastically, every day, without truces
nor lethargies, but eluding the trends to reproduce, soles in hand,
works that had demand or, to say it without euphamisms, to work
summoned single by commercialist aims as it happens in many.
The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes
that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the
world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even
draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend
to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces
can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from
the existing paintings.h
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