Manos de pintura
ISSN: 1885-5687
Year of publication: 2011
Issue Title: Homenaje al pintor Ramón Gaya en su Centenario (1910-2010)
Issue: 7
Pages: 149-159
Type: Article
More publications in: Escritura e imagen
Abstract
Through the study of Gaya´s paintings and writings this article proposes a broader reflection on the characteristic of the image in general. Pursuing this intention, the very notion of �reality� and the distinction �reality / painting� will be questioned. The painting is always (of) another painting: hand over hand (painting coats by hand). In turn, the authorship, the �the author´s hand�, will operate the surgery of the artwork, not by adding but by removing layers of paint; the layers of an artistic culture that has made of painting an indispensible double of an autonomous and self-sufficient reality. Gaya�s work is an evidence of that operation that reveals the hollow of a distance, the cut of a spacing in the very dimension of the �real�, in its intimate constitution which, ultimately, is called to become the essential motif of his painting.
Bibliographic References
- Gaya, R., “Velázquez, pájaro solitario”, en Obra Completa, Edición al cuidado de Nigel Dennose Isabel Verdejo, Editorial Pre-Textos, Valencia-Madrid, 2010, p. 118.
- Gaya, R., “Carta a un Andrés [y otros escritos]” en Obra Completa, Edición al cuidado de Nigel Dennose Isabel Verdejo, Editorial Pre-Textos, Valencia-Madrid, 2010, p. 225.