STATEMENT:
Francisco Vidal is original
from Barranquilla, Colombia artist residing in New York City for many years,
although
I has developed and artistic language in this city, my art reflects the cultural values, ideals,
the daily life a his Barranquilla.Colombia
Francisco is a versatile
figurative painter who works in oil, acrylic, watercolors and gouaches, his work is a figurative behind his oeuvre reveal
an artist who has passion and intellectual rigor and solid tecnique to create a genuinely body of work.
The lines on my paintings are primitive and simple but they represent the mood of apeople that sees beyond its present
day challenges.A people
inspired by its surrounding,The sea,the mountain,street
life,The market place, its music.The colors on Vidal's paintings remind us of the magic of the tropic, where The green,The
blues,The reds,the yellows,take on life of their own and become chromatic gods that bewitck you with an ultra-sensory
perception on beauty.
like Vidal puts it "During
the carnival in Barranquilla all of society unite and become one, leaving aside their vicissitudes.everyone become one body
and soul,dancing to the beat of funin struments,reaching to the heights of their dreams."Capturing emotions like love,jealousy,solicitude,violence,desperation,resentment,hope
and freedom all hidden behin a mask and portrayed on my paintings as a vehicle for a lenguage of love and tragedy"
Francisco Vidal
