GENERAL SYNOPSIS :

*PRESENTATION
*BIOGRAPHY (HISTORY, TECHNIQUE/THEMES AND PHOTOS)



Consuelo González is an artist, born in Madrid in 1949. She studied at the college for Industrial Technical Engineers. From the age of 8, she began to work on paintings (Oil on Canvas). At the age of 30, she decided to dedicate herself to painting, and spent 5 years in Andalucia, fascinated by Andalucian art. In Madrid, she studied in both private and public art schools, where she discovered the Spatula as an artistic tool. The outcome, after many years of studying and investigation, has made her technique and style quite unique.
After a few years of reflection, she has progressed to the stage of change in her technique and objectivity, going even deeper than she did earlier in her career, and concentrating on a wide, global exposition.

HISTORIA.

It could be said that her works are very subjective, with a unique universal theme. Her technique is the outstanding exponent in her attempt to show the dignity and beauty of the works of mankind, and her desire that that should continue.


TECHNIQUE.

I could be said that her paintings represent the search between two disciplines, science and art, with her extraordinary use of the Spatula as her only tool. Light and texture are predominent in her style that balances between realism, expressionism, and impressionism, using her spatula to create a porous line reflecting the tones and colours in each one of her works.

Her use of the spatula is probably what makes her unique, as she never uses the brush in any of her works. She intuitively discarded the paintbrush as a tool in her works, as she felt that the brush took her too close to hiper-realism, and she wanted to to do something different. Since then, she has used the spatula to great effect, generating paradoxical and contradictory perceptions, with a realism that leaves her ex-impressionism behind. From a distance, the spectator believes to notice certain details, which at close range, are seen to be effects.

? There are three very important aspects that should be taken into account:
? TEXTURE, LIGHT, and FORMS.
The treatment of the texture is realistic, with incredible effects, with the light so important ? the luminary effect at any particular instant depending on the spirit of the object in question.
Form does not exist without being rescued from the darkness within which it has been installed, and form being the reason for the treatment of light and texture, which is a clear result of her investigation.


THEMES.

In her works, Consuelo portrays mulicultural universes and human diversity, and obvious to the spectator is her desire to live and enjoy life, but taking into account human emotions such as lovingness, sadness, charm, as well as equality in everything that is basic and fundamental.

Consuelo has a real desire to show human dignity, the true light of poverty that is not made over or camouflaged, with human elegance above all things prevailing above objects or scenery, which often appear in the background shadows. Materialism or economy do not make a man, woman or child, only their dignity does.

Animals, people, traditions are portrayed in such a manner that leads the spectator to understand the human secret, that being that the human is the only animal who really understands their fate, and that a work of art can capture the instance of the infinitive present, showing the enormous dynamism of life.
The soul is reflected in this form as a unique moment in everyday life.