Original artwork description:

What you see in these artworks, which I have been doing for a few years, are not, for the most part, "real" landscapes. They are what I call “Dream Landscapes”, that is, not an exact copy of a specific place, but the sensation that nature transmits to me, directly or by the art, expressing it later in a symbolic way.
This artwork belongs to a new series called "Natural Flags", they are landscapes of more or less abstract shapes on a white background because it represents a dawn, a new way of seeing things, life.
The artwork is titled “Castilla revisited” and it is a symbolic landscape, that is, it is and is not a landscape. As the title indicates, it is an (imaginary) visit for the second time to the place in Spain called Castilla, home of a famous gentleman called Don Quijote of la Mancha. Maybe that head that appears on the right is him and those shapes before him are the windmills that he saw as giants to fight.
When talking about Castilla (contrary to what is described in the novel), an arid, flat land comes to mind, in which any elevation, mountain or tree stands out greatly. It is possible that this has something to do with the origin of Don Quijote's madness, prompting him to fight against the fear of finding himself in the middle of nowhere, in an inside that is actually an outside, an empty, infinite and flat desert. He said to his squire Sancho: “fortune is guiding our affairs better than we could wish.”
When fighting against the tall and dynamic windmills, against the movement of their arms, against the wind that drives them, that brings rain and carries seeds, it is as if it were suggesting to us, although doing the opposite (“if they are simple windmills” a sane person would say), that we must look up with our feet on the ground, but taking care of both things, since they are closely linked, in addition to paying attention to the importance of things, even very small ones.
I believe that Don Quijote, although a madman in the eyes of those who cannot see beyond, fought in favor of noble ideals, in search of new adventures, action, imagination, against the death of the earth, its reddish sequence or lack of ideas, against mental and spiritual flattening, against not having goals or dreams, like an ancient gentleman standard bearer of love, life and art.
It has painted edges, a frame is not necessary but is recommended.

Materials used:

Acrylic

Tags:

#landscape #dreams #novel #colorful #trees #spain #land #imagination #literature #windmills #alejos #quijote #giants #quixote #ecologic