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"PENETRATIONS" 2013 , "CODEX" 2014, "COLOR SYNOPSIS" 2015 AND "QUITO EN SINTESIS 2016"
 
1911 was a key year in the artistic career of Paul Klee. In this year, he could contact Der Blaue Reiter members, such as Kandisky and the avant-garde French artists. His innovation in art promoted the use of colour in Klee, who learned to develop any expression with elements of the child-like painting. In January 1921 he worked as a teacher of the Bahuaus carrying out his own educational method, accompanied by other artists such as Johannes Itten, J. Alberts, and Kandisnsky. One of the methodologies he used was the one called Measured Fields. Klee introduced a body of work in which a tension between the rule and the intution were established, systematically working  the relationship between colour, shape, and pictorial space based on a relatively fixed model. Klee worried about the psychological mechanism of the perception of colour doing a perceptive art painting and making sure that it was not a superfluous work. In the series called PENETRATIONS I tried to follow these learnings and a basic methodology where the colour is shown as the most relevant artistic resource. The most basic language of the pictorial process is applied studying the chromatic interaction and the conscious and unconscious creation processes; the ones that are linked to a pre-established rule and the ones that are a result of the most irrational spontaneity, where the intution plays a main role, as it does in a child. In the series called CODEX I imported an intermediate item introducing a figurative aspect. The compositions respond to the models of the medieval codex where the shapes and colour are complemented with small images, structures in a musical staff and neumes. The introduction of small pieces of text from lyrics of popular songs applies a direct narrative aspect to the visual work. The series ends with the pictorial cycle by the association of discordant elements that could be ironic and where the colour is still the main plastic element. 

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