‘The Watermelon’ — Isabel Quintanilla
The current painting, although it has many detractors, is also able to show all the greatness of art and how it is able to communicate with subtlety to communicate with the viewer.
There is a pictorial movement known by the striking name of hyperrealism. Today, hyperrealism is striking because it is directly related to photography and is misunderstood as the best way to paint.
It emerged in the late sixties of the twentieth century as an art that seeks, above all, virtuosity. To achieve this virtuosity, a refined technique is used to the extreme, understood as the copy to the millimeter of reality (as if we were making a photograph), and that in its meaning is based on a very high degree, almost absolute, of objectivity. Despite this, there is a slight hint of representation, as it is still a work that passes through the artist’s filter, although there is hardly any narrative beyond capturing the moment.
The mastery of technique is its main bulwark. As hyperrealist artists seek perfection, the way to achieve it is to sublimate the methodology, focused on the literal representation of reality. That is why there are usually no brushstrokes in these works, nor are there emotions or feelings. It is a pure exercise…
