10/02/2012

Buying a nice piece of art in Costa Rica

Costa Rica has many famous artists and their art ranges from watercolor to oil painting. But the one that makes me very happy all the time has to do with the Costa Rica countryside because the colors of the houses, the sky, the leaves on the trees, the sunsets, all these elements bring so much life to a painting.
Names like Francisco Amighetti, Jose Sánchez, Rafa Fernández are well known in the Costa Rican art galleries because with all the international expositions they have been into.


This artist I have chosen  to show you is José Sanchez. His favorite theme is the Costa Rican countryside. He made this painting called "Clean clothes" and comes from the inspiration of the words his mother always said that they should always wear clean clothes. On this watercolor he pictured himself playing with his brother.


I also found a video with all his paintings . It shows a most complete set of paintings and describes somehow the timeline of his career.
In Costa Rican art you will always find bright colors and happy people as well as nature. These paintings show a lot of the Costa Rican lifestyle like this man riding the oxcart. Oxcarts are still a means of transportation in a few villages, especially to transport materials like sand from the rivers.
On this painting one can see the mud oven that is very used in the Guanacaste area where they bake "rosquillas" made with corn meal. Also, another detail is the bougainvillea growing on top of the wall with its intense colors of purple.


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