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Arte Santander ’14 Project – Techniques

Archaeology of a Landscape 

Format:

  • Vertical = grandiosity
  • Landscape = extensive panoramic vision and multi-temporal

Lights:

  • Black-white = present – past, day – night, reality – dream, real – imaginary.

Line:

  • Simple = Essence
  • Multiple = Values (real, chromatic, emotive, temporary)
  • Chaotic = Dreamlike
  • Thick = Affirmation
  • Thin = Suggestive
  • Continuous = Present
  • Dashed = Past

Colour – Patches of colour:

  • Vibrant = Reality
  • Blended = Memory
  • Bright = Sentiments, profound sensations
  • Absence of colour = Perception of the sediments left by passage of time in the landscape.
  • Neat patch = The I, the present, the reality
  • Diffused patch = Fading memory, times past
  • Half tints = Distance – depth in time, in space, in memory, in the sentiments.

 

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