Post II: "My favourite artist"

Hello!

Today I am going to talk about an artist that I admire: Diego de Velázquez. I have to admit that I do not like much contemporary art, I prefer old school artists.

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, comonly known as Diego Velázquez, was an artist who born at the end of the 16th Century in Seville, Spain. He is an important figure to Spanish Golden Age of Baroque period, mostly, for his uncommon style of not doing a previously sketch before painting a tableau. Instead, he chose to instantly apply the bruskwork on canvas. When someone looks at a certain distance his paintings, brushworks or "color" becomes a solid figure instead a group of colours without an a apparently purpose. He was the leading artist in the court of king Felipe IV, and portrayed the royal family many times. The most interesting thing about Velazquez, besides his way of put only the color on canvas instead a sketch, were the way of portraying daily life and mythical themes at the same time, at the same painting.

I like a lot this artist and his way to portray everithing.