"Un soplo de aire fresco" (Un souffle d'air frais.
Peinture acrylique symbolique. Paysage coloré d'art populaire avec personnage.
Dimension art cm. : (H) 43 x (L) 53 x (D) 6 cm. En pouces : 16.93" x 20.87" x 1.57" .
Les photos de Raquel Fariñas se présentent sous nos yeux avec une simplicité presque naïve. We find in them elements of nature reduced to their most synthetic features, primitive games of perspective, and geometric frames as agglutination of those elements dispersed by the painting in apparent chaos.
Son œuvre est remplie de symboles universels appartenant à l'imaginaire de la culture traditionnelle de tous les temps ; avec eux, et son utilisation magistrale de la couleur et de la composition, elle parvient à libérer ses préoccupations vitales les plus profondes.
Raquel Fariñas, Spanish artist, art designer, teacher, and art therapist, is also a renowned illustrator of children´s literature.
As an art therapist, Raquel Fariñas uses her artistic creations as personal therapy, which helps her reflect on life and on her own existence, reducing highly complex thoughts to the most essential pictorial expression. The sun and the moon; the earth, the wind, and the sea; plants and flowers; the fish, and the birds; the characters that fly chasing their dreams, sometimes so difficult to reach; and the world upside down are part of her pictorial universe.
Her paintings, of great chromatic beauty, are complex but harmonious compositions that convey goodness and serenity. The calm that is reached after effective art therapy.
L'artiste dit :
“My paintings are the medium that I dispose of to reflect on the reality beyond rational knowledge, to portray the beauty I always seek. Lorsque je peins, chaque élément de la réalité que je représente se révèle porteur de vérité et de beauté, ce qui leur confère un sens différent de leur simple apparence ou utilité.
Sur ce plan conceptuel, tout est lié et je remarque une autre existence que je suis incapable d'expliquer avec des mots. So, what I can not express in concept, I do it with images, and it is here where the world of symbols appears; the concepts of unveiling and hiding are connected in a symbol. Symbols, myths, and dreams reveal what escapes from immediate experience to consciousness.
This is how I create shapes in my artwork. Dans un arbre, je trouve la Loi Naturelle du Développement et de la Croissance. In the circular, round, the Cyclical Law of the Sun and the Moon, and their celestial movements; the cycles of food, and water… Also the fabrics are important: everything is weaved, linked.
There is no opposition between up and down, The one is a reflection of the other.
To see and to contemplate are not the same. When I paint I attempt to contemplate, and I give this contemplation to other people, who will transform my signs into symbols and my symbols into signs. I never ask you to follow my interpretations. You, the viewer, are the creator of a new meaning”.
RAQUEL FARIÑAS
***The Spanish Philatelic Postal and Telegraphic Service issued a beautiful series of eight self-adhesive stamps depicting reproductions of eight works by Raquel Fariñas which have Spanish Traditional Nursery Rhymes comme thème commun, ainsi qu'un timbre tiré d'une de ses peintures pour commémorer Noël.