Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Thoughts

...going through  a journey to find out the meaning of my ancestors' art, I found a very underground but talented artist from the streets of Guayaquil, Juan Jose Pita Sanchez. Very quiet guy, with a very mellow look. From the way he would dress up to the way he acted and painted. He was known in the neighborhood as "el loco", because we would never go out, he would paint and just look at his paintings for hours, almost like he was looking for something from within. Nobody really knew how he made money to survive in his one bedroom house/studio. Even though he was so talented, he never tried to sell any of his paintings.
In my early teens I used to pass by his house everything I would go play some soccer with friends. It caught my attention that everyday he would work on different paintings, but he would not finish them. All of them looked beautiful, but incomplete. Weeks would go by until he would add details to those unfinished art pieces, but almost making sure he does not finish them...One day while I was walking by his house, I heard a very horrible sound, almost like somebody was getting killed. I looked inside just to see a man on his knees with blood all over his pants and shirt. He cut one of his wrists and blood was splashing everywhere. Almost motion less I saw how with his bloody fingers he would add the perfect red combination to a sunset painting..All I heard was "it is done"...
To be continued ....

 David Quisaguano was Gonzalo Endara Crow’s prodigee student and follower. Quisaguano has continued the work that made Endara Crow a symbol in Ecuador and Latin America. The beauty of Endara’s imagination and fantasy has inspired many artists worldwide. Why get a reproduction when you can get an original painting by this wonderful and unique artist?
Villa Quevedo Art Galleries is proud to list a collection of paintings from an artist that has followed the foot steps of his “maestro”.   Just for now we are able to offer this painting for a fraction of the price. 

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Sunday, November 7, 2010

The first art memmories

Growing in a third world country makes it so difficult to believe in art, especially when art does not pay bills. But there was something in my youth that attracted me to colors in a way hard to explain. I couldn't draw or paint, but I had a good sense of appreciation for the paintings my parents would acquire. Those paintings always showed some sort of nostalgia, like something was missing...I did not know why. In one of my visits to a gallery I asked one of the painters "What is with Ecuadorian artist and their nostalgia?'' he looked shocked, and then he smiled and said " good observation, I do not know why, in my case was a woman that inspired me, and I tried to capture all the colors God gives us and in a canvas give it to her" .  And I thought that is weird because the same happens with our national music, I do not recall a happy songs...just some sort of a beautiful sadness, the one you  need in order to write the best songs...
To be continued...

 David Quisaguano was Gonzalo Endara Crow’s prodigee student and follower. Quisaguano has continued the work that made Endara Crow a symbol in Ecuador and Latin America. The beauty of Endara’s imagination and fantasy has inspired many artists worldwide. Why get a reproduction when you can get an original painting by this wonderful and unique artist?
Villa Quevedo Art Galleries is proud to list a collection of paintings from an artist that has followed the foot steps of his “maestro”.   Just for now we are able to offer this painting for a fraction of the price. 

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Check our store for Ecuadorian/Latin American paintings...Villa Quevedo Art Galleries