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Perfect water landscape symmetry reflections (2022) Painting by José Antonio Castro-Muñiz

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Acrylic on Canvas, 39.4x39.4 in

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Dimensions Height 39.4in, Width 39.4in
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Categories Paintings from $20,000 Conceptual Art Landscape

It is very common from cultural tradition and art to consider a perfect face, body, objects and landscapes based on the idea of symmetry. Asymmetrical things are in some cases ugly or unbalance. This kind of concepts have change eventually because we are surrounded by a new kind of aesthetics which challenge the classical idea from Renaissance of proportion and symmetry. Nature by itself is almost never symmetrical rather most creations of nature are of this kind, but is human eye who creates symmetry when we perceive nature as perfect and balance. Nowadays our artificial well ordered world has became a distortion of balance and symmetry and nature appears to be the opposite. In Japan the cult for spring blossoming of the cherry trees has become a tradition, gardens of contemplation are all over the country, the perfection on every detail in this landscape created by human hand is awesome. Wise Japanese observation of nature had taugth them how to make it in a way that looks casual.
Since Renaissance symmetry and proportion was perceived such as an asset for beauty. A symmetrical face, body, object or landscape was art was based on this idea of balance. Ugliness belongs to unbalance or asymmetrical things, beings or people. Nowadays our technology creates all series of objects that most of them are symmetrical with an idea of perfection and balance. Nature in the oposite hand creates things by the combination of many factors and not necessarily balance or symmetrical, it just occurs by chance. Japanese culture for contemplation gardens and landscapes created by human hand look naturally created and casual, but, they are wisely and carefully made to look that way. Human eye can create aesthetics and art based on the same concepts. It looks natural after a long way of perfect apparent creation. The painting I presented here looks natural, but, in many ways for some eyes maybe results too much. The beauty is not based on the appearance but on the idealization.

José Antonio Castro-Muñiz

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José Antonio Castro Muñiz (Kako Castro-Muñiz) Full Professor. Since 1995. Fine Arts Faculty of Pontevedra. Vigo University DX_5 Director and Creator since 1997. Digital and Graphic[...]

José Antonio Castro Muñiz (Kako Castro-Muñiz)

Full Professor. Since 1995. Fine Arts Faculty of Pontevedra. Vigo University

DX_5 Director and Creator since 1997. Digital and Graphic Art Research.

MFA of Fine Arts. Kala Arts Institute Berkeley.

Doctorate Degree in Fine Arts University of Vigo. Extraordinary Award for Doctorate Degree. Vigo University

Graduate Degree in Fine Arts San Fernando. Complutense University of Madrid.

Graphic Art Research in different institutions and countries:

Masereel Centrum. Anwerp; Macintosh College. Edimborough; Manhattan Graphics Centre of New York; Crown Point Press. San Francisco. CA; Epson Centre. Tokyo and Kyoto. Nagano. Japan. Among many others.

Founder and Director of the DX_5 Digital&Graphic Art Research Vigo University. Developing different Researching Lines about the concept and practice of multiple Art, printing and electronic digital images. Photopolymers, laser etching, applied to the Engraving and Art Printing field. Former Lines where: Multiple art, complexity aesthetics and sustainable Art Printing.

Researching works have been supported and financed by different organizations and Public Institutions. National Ministry of Education of Spain, Galician Government, EPSON Japan, Vigo University.

Summarizing a few projects description:

‘Photovoltaic techniques applied to engraving and drawing on metal plates’. ‘Digital engraving with Laser etching’. ‘Piezo-digital jet printing water-base on Art paper’. ‘Non- toxic printmaking’. ‘Renewable energies for Art Printing’.

Editor and writer for Art magazines and different Art book editorials. Participating on the writing of different books developing some theoretical and practical parameters on Contemporary Multiple Art and new paradigms on Contemporary Art Graphic.

Some publications:

-‘Intangible Patterns. Invisible maps for electronic graphics’

-‘Piezo-jet: The injected print’

-‘Anode-cathode. The chemical memory carved by electrons’

-‘A ding in Japan’

-On minded prints. On prints minded’

-‘From the in-print to the numeric Art’.

-‘Multiple. Complexity and sustainability’

Teaching on post-graduate courses and seminars, lectures on practice and theory about Contemporary Graphic Art, Universities in Spain and International Universities: