THE ARTIST
The Mexican painter Jose Salazar is a classic of our times because his work is rooted in the universe.
The artist, through his creation has discovered his perpetual movement of images where color seems to be inflamed in a cosmos of infinite projections.
His work has been a succession of stages in a search for a style that distinguishes mas’s existence. Jose Salazar began his work his work in the plastic canons of rigid academism. He later flourished within framework of realism but this limited his ambitions for success since he never had, in this process, the intimate satisfaction of his major work.
He later reached his plenitude in an escape from color which transformed his pallet into a fountain of sensitive forms.
The artist had arrived at new artistic life with a unique style.
Neoimpressionism gave him the new light which he needed at this time to give fresh impetus to his work.
Jose Salazar is an artist who has forged himself with sensitivity and talent; at this time his paintings have the vigor of positive creation, always adjusting to the supreme laws of universal harmony in relation to the time and space.
In each one of his works the footprint of man is transcended in voluminous movement and is joined to the planes that form the image of a world of fantasy.
His paintings are not static; they guard the polychrome rhythm which keeps the equilibrium of the plastic language.
Jose Salazar was born in the city of Aguascalientes, capital of the State of Aguascalientes, on June 28, 1926.
He spent his childhood in this province and was an inquisitive and restless youth. He will draw in his school books the graceful silhouettes of birds and the beautiful landscape of his fertile land.
Salazar relates that he at the age of twelve he won a contest at the traditional Feria de San Marcos.
This fifty peso prize and an honorable mention for a landscape of the city of Aguascalientes gave him the incentive to continue his study of art.
He obtained a scholarship to “La Esmeralda”, school of painting and sculpture in Mexico City, where he received a degree for teaching.
Since than the life of Jose Salazar has been dominated by his art which has brought him recognition as one of the great contemporary painters.
The exhibits that ha has presented in Mexico and abroad have reaffirm his triumph as a great artist.
With the Salazar’s paintings one feels the deep love for all is clean & honest. To the spectator he portrays human warmth as his paintings are social not political.
To evoke a vigorous sense of movement the forms and volumes of objects are being drawn over them in the terms of transparent, interacting planes of pure color. His Neo- Impressionistic technique of complementary and contrasting colors blend in the eye of the spectator.
Withing the varied expanse of modern Mexican art Salazar’s is a strikingly original talent. All of his paintings show the ease and pleasure with which he paints.
The combination of fine talent, imagination and a warm and sensitive personality will achieve for him fame far beyond these Continents boundaries.
PAULINO PEREZ MARTINEZ
The Mexican painter Jose Salazar is a classic of our times because his work is rooted in the universe.
The artist, through his creation has discovered his perpetual movement of images where color seems to be inflamed in a cosmos of infinite projections.
His work has been a succession of stages in a search for a style that distinguishes mas’s existence. Jose Salazar began his work his work in the plastic canons of rigid academism. He later flourished within framework of realism but this limited his ambitions for success since he never had, in this process, the intimate satisfaction of his major work.
He later reached his plenitude in an escape from color which transformed his pallet into a fountain of sensitive forms.
The artist had arrived at new artistic life with a unique style.
Neoimpressionism gave him the new light which he needed at this time to give fresh impetus to his work.
Jose Salazar is an artist who has forged himself with sensitivity and talent; at this time his paintings have the vigor of positive creation, always adjusting to the supreme laws of universal harmony in relation to the time and space.
In each one of his works the footprint of man is transcended in voluminous movement and is joined to the planes that form the image of a world of fantasy.
His paintings are not static; they guard the polychrome rhythm which keeps the equilibrium of the plastic language.
Jose Salazar was born in the city of Aguascalientes, capital of the State of Aguascalientes, on June 28, 1926.
He spent his childhood in this province and was an inquisitive and restless youth. He will draw in his school books the graceful silhouettes of birds and the beautiful landscape of his fertile land.
Salazar relates that he at the age of twelve he won a contest at the traditional Feria de San Marcos.
This fifty peso prize and an honorable mention for a landscape of the city of Aguascalientes gave him the incentive to continue his study of art.
He obtained a scholarship to “La Esmeralda”, school of painting and sculpture in Mexico City, where he received a degree for teaching.
Since than the life of Jose Salazar has been dominated by his art which has brought him recognition as one of the great contemporary painters.
The exhibits that ha has presented in Mexico and abroad have reaffirm his triumph as a great artist.
With the Salazar’s paintings one feels the deep love for all is clean & honest. To the spectator he portrays human warmth as his paintings are social not political.
To evoke a vigorous sense of movement the forms and volumes of objects are being drawn over them in the terms of transparent, interacting planes of pure color. His Neo- Impressionistic technique of complementary and contrasting colors blend in the eye of the spectator.
Withing the varied expanse of modern Mexican art Salazar’s is a strikingly original talent. All of his paintings show the ease and pleasure with which he paints.
The combination of fine talent, imagination and a warm and sensitive personality will achieve for him fame far beyond these Continents boundaries.
PAULINO PEREZ MARTINEZ