Jaime Sabines | I’m not dying of love: I’m dying of you / Non è che muoia d’amor, muoio di te

Ron Hicks* - Study of a Couple

I’m not dying of love:

I’m dying of you,

my love-dying of the love of you,

of my dire need for my skin of you,

of my soul and my mouth of you,

of the miserable wretch I am without you.

I’m dying of you and me, of both

of us, of this-

ripped to shreds, torn apart,

the two of us are dying, dying of it.

Frida Kahlo | You rain on me - I sky you, | Tu mi piovi - Io ti cielo, 1947

Today, Wednesday 22 of January 1947

You rain on me - I sky you

You’re the fineness, childhood,

life - my love - little boy - old man

mother and center - blue - tender-

ness - I hand you my

universe and you live me

It is you whom I love today.

= I love you with all my loves

Frida Kahlo: I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone..

"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.."

"Dipingo me stessa perché passo molto tempo da sola e sono il soggetto che conosco meglio.."

- Frida Kahlo*

Omar Ortiz, 1977 | Arte in dettagli

Omar Ortiz è nato a Guadalajara, Jalisco, Messico, dove vive tuttora. Fin da ragazzo si è interessato al disegno e all'illustrazione.

Ha studiato per una laurea in Graphic Design, dove ha appreso diverse tecniche come il disegno a mano, pastelli, carboncino, acquerelli, acrilici e aerografia.

Quando finì il college decise di guadagnarsi da vivere con la pittura.

Nel 2002 ha frequentato i suoi primi corsi di pittura ad olio con l'artista Carmen Alarcón, che considera la sua principale insegnante.

Omar Ortiz attualmente lavora con la pittura ad olio perché la considera la tecnica più nobile.

Gabriela Garza Padilla, 1965 | Neo-Surrealist painter

Gabriela Garza Padilla was born in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, an industrialized city in Northern Mexico.

At the age of 14 she began to paint as a hobby.

When she finished high school specializing in Math and Physics, she decided that her path was to be a professional artist and wanted to move to Mexico City to study for a Bachelor's Degree in Arts at the Academia de San Carlos.

Leonora Carrington | Surrealist painter and sculptor | Sculpture

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a painter, writer, sculptor, alchemist, visionary, and was the darling of the 1930s Surrealism movement.

She never tried to be a Surrealist, but her paintings of fantastical creatures and living furniture happened to encapsulate the essence of the movement.

Fidel Garcia, 1960 | Dreams of Love

"Art expresses the soul of humanity in our common journey across the ages" - Fidel Garcia

Born in Mexico City, Fidel Garcia is a self-taught painter and creator.

At age seven, Garcia’s artistic ability became apparent to his father, an artist himself, who encouraged and supported his passion for creativity.

He developed an unique international dimensional style that is imaginatively imbued with the visual power of Renaissance artists such as Spanish Baroque master Diego Velazquez, American master John Singer Sargent, French master William Bouguereau, Spanish surreal master Salvador Dali, and Austrian design master Gustav Klimt.

Juan Medina, 1950 | Hyperrealist / Surrealist painter

Mexican painter Juan Medina was born in Mexico City. In the beginning it was shape, then came light, afterwards color and finally texture; as in the architectonic creation, the genesis of Juan Medina’s pictorial work rests on a solid structure of techniques and concepts that weave in plastic dimensions his memories made of oil and canvas.
With time, the step from watercolor to oil was the resource that allowed him to approach with mastery the conscience of time encrusted in stone, wood, mirrors and all model object that transfers Renaissance rhetoric without moralizing it.

José Parra, 1975 | Surrealist painter

José Parra, Mexican painter, was born in Guadalajara Jal. Mexico on Jan. 29th 1975.
He started as an apprentice at his father’s studio in Guadalajara at the age of 16, where he was able to develop his own compositions always influenced by the Spanish baroque sculpture, paintings and furniture manufactured at the family’s studio.
He lived in Puerto Vallarta for short periods of time during 1998-1999, where he was able to begin a more personal style at first influenced by surrealism but blending it with Mexican elements like “Talavera”.

Espressionismo figurativo di Fidel Garcia, 1960

""L'arte esprime l'anima dell'umanità nel nostro comune viaggio attraverso i secoli". - Fidel Garcia

Nato a Città del Messico, Fidel Garcia è un pittore e creatore autodidatta.

All'età di sette anni, l'abilità artistica di Garcia divenne evidente a suo padre, un artista lui stesso, che incoraggiò e sostenne la sua passione per la creatività.

Ha sviluppato uno stile dimensionale internazionale unico che è fantasiosamente intriso del potere visivo di artisti rinascimentali come il maestro barocco spagnolo Diego Velazquez, il maestro americano John Singer Sargent, il maestro francese William Bouguereau, il maestro surreale spagnolo Salvador Dali ed il maestro di design austriaco Gustav Klimt.

Leonora Carrington | Painting

Leonora Carrington, (born April 6, 1917, Clayton Green, Lancashire, England-died May 25, 2011, Mexico City, Mexico), British-born Mexican Surrealist artist and writer known for her haunting, autobiographical, somewhat inscrutable paintings that incorporate images of sorcery, metamorphosis, alchemy and the occult.

Carrington was raised in a wealthy Roman Catholic family on a large estate called Crookhey Hall. Carrington’s Irish mother and Irish nanny introduced her to Celtic mythology and Irish folklore, images of which later appeared in her art. From an early age Carrington rebelled against both her family and her religious upbringing. 

Paul David Bond, 1964 | Magic realism painter

Paul Bond's award-winning oil paintings live in the spaces between dreaming and reality.

Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, he draws from the Latin American genre of Magic Realism where symbolic and fantastic elements blend with realistic atmospheres, unveiling a world where anything is possible.

He often refers to then as "fairy tales for adults".

By merging and altering familiar objects - mixed with equal parts whimsy, wonder and mysticism - Bond’s works delight the imagination and stir the soul.

Remedios Varo | Surrealist painter

Remedios Varo’s paintings combine Surrealist influences with a distinctive style that evokes mystical or eerie adventures.

She had a life philosophy of non-conformity and a personal story marked by dislocation and tumult.

During her childhood in Spain, Varo was influenced by her engineer father, who taught her to draw, and her strict Catholic schooling, against which she rebelled.

Following her graduation from art school, she pursued Surrealism and political change.

Alberto Aragòn Reyes, 1980 ~ Symbolist painter / Figurative sculptor

Sculptor Alberto Aragón Reyes was 8 April 1980 inOaxaca, Mexico, a region known for its rebellious nature.

His work is strongly influenced by mural painting, which he works on in addition to his other artistic activities.

His works are charged with the spiritual nature of the relationship between people and animals, which has a strong tradition in Mexico. His motifs and themes are strongly influenced by the ancient traditions of old Mexico. 

Mariana Palova | The Art of Alchemy

Mariana Palova is a Mexican painter and writer. She finds within the positive a living and colorful metamorphosis- the essence of her own cosmogony.

Playing with the influence of her experiences and her transformations, Mariana surrounds herself with an aura showing special devotion to the nature elements, analogies, the substitution, human monsters and the astrologic environment.

Despite her young age and relative inexperience, her work has slipped quickly into important art/social circles.

Equally rejected and loved, Mariana's sensitive artwork, evokes overflowing passion and a philosophy of life based on the beauty of human metamorphosis and the allure of imagination, eschewing all that is sick and grotesque in the world.