04Feb 2024 by kike_K No Comments
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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31Aug 2022 by kike_K No Comments
De-humanization in Art

De-humanization in Art

Books
The essay, written by José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) had been published in 1925. The first art movements had arisen and had changed for ever the Art world: cubism, dadaism, expressionism and surrealism; the first abstract Works.   Ortega was not against all those Art avant-garde but was well aware that there was a gap among all this new art, most with an intellectual quality, compared to the tastes or the aesthetic needs of the common man. The average individual does not understand all that ‘intelligentsia’, mocks it or attacks it and, at the end, the average individual simply ignores it.    That’s what he meant when he wrote about De-humanization in Art (he did not really write about the Art lacking humanity). Like in some of those books written by Ortega…
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12Aug 2021 by kike_K No Comments
Tucán

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…
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