BB.AA MUSEUM. Saint Pius V, 9
Pastel is a quick and easy technique to correct, That is why it is ideal for making preparatory sketches that later, frequently, are transferred to oil, the renowned technique, the one who tastes the cache. But it turns out that Vicente from Alicante wheels, what he dominated like no one else, it was the cake. More specifically, pastel portraits, where he captured the essence and psychology of the characters with astonishing ease. “The miraculous finger” they called it. Che lives on, managed to reproduce masterfully delicate lace and fine transparencies, sometimes, even on silk. He Consortium of Museums of the Community Valenciana occupies the Valencia Museum of Fine Arts in the summer to fix a historical injustice: It had been ninety years since an exhibition had been dedicated to wheels, a fundamental artist of the first third of the 19th century who naturally walked the path that separates academicism from romanticism. The journey begins with studies (manos, feet and academies in graphite with touches of clarion blanco) of his early years and He continues with several oil paintings painted during the decade he spent at the Academy of San Carlos in Valencia. (1809-19). Then come bourgeois portraits (from the Gil family) in which the turn towards romanticism begins to be appreciated, of military, from his own family, bathed in romanticism from the bun (giraffe hairstyles) even the shirts, with frock included, and of himself, romantic like no other, in a self-portrait that bids us farewell to the room. S.M.
