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Rationally interpreting a work of abstract color encourage the flow of instinctive trends.
art or even just using verbal language to try The British artist’s compositions aren’t
and introduce someone to its perception can artistic translations of a solid world, but
become an endless journey. The spectator, interpretations of the more impulsive,
forced into a purely aesthetic, non-sensorial passionate and energetic part of the universe.
knowledge, risks floundering in informal Depending on how this energetic motion
magma, getting lost in swamps of
misunderstanding and ambiguity.
Understanding the creative
mechanisms which lead to artistic
conception, establishing how the
artist has transformed intuition
into pictorial material and reading reaches the painter, reawakening his senses,
the result is always difficult. it is changed into tonal orchestration, into a
choir made up of numerous voices or into a
Paul Ygartua´s works are ideal for this kind concert with a reduced number of elements.
of analysis, because we find images of an
apparently transfigured reality, subtracted The painter doesn’t record data, although
from every formal reference and, consequently, he starts from a reality observed on several
from a superficial and impenetrable reading. occasions and also reproduced in an objective
What attracts us is the exasperated chromatism, way in the past; what he’s interested in now
which invades the canvas until it dominates it is the emotional strength transmitted by what
completely. is real. Nothing must conform to the real
element from which it originated: the creative
We are enraptured by the chaos of the colours combination adheres exclusively to the moods
that juxtapose thanks to quick brushstrokes aroused. The sensitivity with which Ygartua
or broader touches, created using a spatula. perceives things means that not only does he
But while the spectator sees color as a catalyst, have the usual capacity to identify general
for Ygartua chromatics and the application of structural properties, but also to discover
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