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
