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HARMONY, 2014 ACRYLICS ON CANVAS 37.5X62.5 IN. | 95X160 CM.

Paul Ygartua´s works are ideal for this kind of analysis, because we find but interpretations of the more impulsive, passionate and energetic part
images of an apparently transfigured reality, subtracted from every of the universe. Depending on how this energetic motion reaches the
formal reference and, consequently, from a superficial and impenetrable painter, reawakening his senses, it is changed into tonal orchestration,
reading. What attracts us is the exasperated chromatism, which invades into a choir made up of numerous voices or into a concert with a reduced
the canvas until it dominates it completely. number of elements.
The painter doesn’t record data, although he starts from a reality
We are enraptured by the chaos of the colors that juxtapose thanks to observed on several occasions and also reproduced in an objective
quick brushstrokes or broader touches, created using a spatula. But way in the past; what he’s interested in now is the emotional strength
while the spectator sees color as a catalyst, for Ygartua chromatics and transmitted by what is real. Nothing must conform to the real element
the application of color encourage the flow of instinctive trends. The from which it originated: the creative combination adheres exclusively
British artist’s compositions aren’t artistic translations of a solid world, to the moods aroused.

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