Pieter Saenredam

Pieter Saenredam

Painting
The indoor and outdoor churches painted by the Dutch Pieter Jansz Saenredam (1597-1665) unveil a certain amount of mystery and a refined special touch and that's the reason they have always been so much captivating over time and for so many painters like Vilhelm Hammershoi or Fernando Zobel. The Saenredam's churches are so different as there is no evident sign of faith, no “grandeur” at all. The characters almost never pray, they just walk along the aisle, visit the chapels, just as they were in a cabinet of curiosities. A touch of austere piety given by the use of colour so measured, so accurate, the rest is just architecture, space and light.
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Julio C. Cabos

Julio C. Cabos

Illustration, scale replicas
The case of Julio C. Cabos has always seemed exceptional, an outstanding technical level for a person who joined the scale-modelling not through a vocational choice but just by chance.  We worked together during a number of years, we studied the use of airbrush techniques applied to both illustration and scale-modelling. His professional career covers a wide variety of artistic subjects, with a constant ability to solve and innovate, a huge amount of achieved works and articles published in magazines throughout the world.In the late 1990 decade he chose to focus on scale-figure painting and ever since, has managed to set a high-quality working line along with a notable effort to encourage novel painters and modellers through workshops and demonstrations. In a certain way he has always been a remarkable…
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Aircraft in the Sierra de Guadarrama

Aircraft in the Sierra de Guadarrama

Books
A fresh new book written by Michel Lozares, so interesting as the two previous publications focussing on the story and the wreckage of air crashes that had happened in Spain. A very entertaining and easy to read approach dealing with history and technic, the book is a sort of journey through time, fully illustrated which includes photographs, maps and a bunch of curiosities. I am glad I have met Michel, a man always going off the beaten path, with a positive and tireless mood, a man with so many projects in mind he is capable to achieve. The book 'Los Aviones de la Sierra de Guadarrama' is a limited edition which can only be purchased the Librería Gaudí
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