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My work has always been committed to the realistic
representation of the natural world, still lifes, the landscape,
and human figure. However, my realism is not just straightforward
imagery that replicates a particular object, place, or person.
It is imbued with a mysterious content that comes from my fascination
with things not completely explained, like deep shadows with
no direct reference and isolated personalities. There are allusions
to the metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de Chirico and to the
Surrealists; both freed the eye to see the pure, inexplicable
existence of things. There are also references to the American
Realists of the twentieth century and to the Spanish still life
masters of the seventeenth century. Among their ordinary surroundings
and ordinary friends and family, and in the shapes and textures
of the most banal of objects, these artists perceived an extraordinary
aesthetic context. As a modern painter, I pay tribute to all
of them as a part of my artistic heritage, while I continue
to explore the art of painting and all it is capable of representing.
Miguel Padura
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