Crisol de sueños

"Pocket version synthesis of other books by the author on the same subject. In four chapters (precolumbian, colonial, republican, and 20th century), author gives a capsulated summary of what Ecuadorian art has been, from the past to the present, in a simple style intentionally suitable for high school students, hence its interest. Complemented with a short bibliography and a glossary of terms for those unfamiliar with the artistic and architectural field"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

El dibujo de apuntes no es solo el trabajo preliminar de un cuadro. Puede constituir un fin en sí mismo, un género del dibujo con identidad propia, una variedad artística versátil y gratificante, accesible a cualquier persona. Este libro, dirigido tanto al artista principiante como al pintor curtido, ofrece las herramientas para encajar, esbozar y representar de manera sucinta un modelo real. Desarrollar la habilidad para capturar con pocos trazos una forma que exprese mucho implica aprender a ejercitar con soltura el trazo, desarrollar la capacidad de improvisación, de síntesis, de...

As a one of the foremost painters of the 20th century, Dalí, like Picasso and Warhol, can boast of having overturned the art of the previous century and directed contemporary art toward its present incarnation. As irrational as he was surrealist, this genius diverted objects from their original meanings, plunging them into the acid of his constantly churning imagination. A megalomaniac and an artist who understood above all the force of marketing and publicity, Dalí disorientates the viewer in order to draw him into the artist’s world. On his canvases, images and colours crash together to ...

La lectura de este libro nos remite directamente a la problemática de la estética de nuestro tiempo y abre a nuestra consideración vastas regiones artísticas que la tradición clásica había ocluido o malinterpretado.