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12Sep 2021 by kike_K No Comments

Warhol

Illustration

I do not understand, I really do not understand Andy Warhol’s success (1928-1987). So many exhibitions and books about his works, no one work with a minimum of sensitivity, no ‘joie de vivre’. When the artist wants to give some human touch to these cold, impersonal pictures, he merely uses photomechanical tricks (some golden strokes for instance) and it turns to be much worse. One cannot help thinking these are works undertaken by a man who’s been shot. Warhol is Nosferatu, the Un-dead, hobnobbing Goya or Paul Klee, unapologetic, in every Art History book. We like the tomato soup bin however let us acknowledge that Pop-Art has always been some minor art movement; we would not have gotten any news if it hasn’t come from Anglo-Saxon culture. Andy Warhol had…

Tucán

Aviation, Books

When someone orders a painting or a drawing in order to illustrate the cover of a book it is always a pleasure and, at the same time, a matter of pride: a kind a work that will last forever! I enthusiastically accepted the assignment: an oil painting for the cover of a book written by my friend Michel Lozares Sanchez. The author tells in full detail the history of the Douglas C-54 Skymaster on duty in the Spanish Air Force. He is an excellent modeller and an accurate researcher devoted to all matters related to aviation. He has also has been carrying out tireless work in a new field named ‘aero-archaeology’ (researching and cataloguing crashed or abandoned aircraft and recovering interesting historical remains). As a matter of fact, these aircraft had…

Of Human Bondage

Books

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) has been always considered a scarcely original writer, with his much simple, straightforward style, always uncompromised. Maugham himself agreed he didn’t experience or risk and he really didn’t care. He was never held in higher esteem among readers like Joyce or Virginia Woolf, but around 1930 he was the most famous and the best paid in the world. Maugham was everything but a failed writer. I like this very well-known novel because a good part of the events takes place in Paris, in an effervescent artistic atmosphere during the impressionist age, when Manet’s Olympia is exhibited in the Luxembourg. Paris is a dream destination for all those who had felt ‘the call’. The British young man, Philip Carey, is one of those people. He is born…