interview by Patricia Marañon carried out exclusively for Stylusart

Today I have interviewed Jose Luis Resino, an artist from Madrid whose works has been exhibited successfully in and out of Spain.

José Luis you have touched all types of themes, figurative, landscapes, urban landscapes.  At present you are exploring a different theme with a total absence of the human figure which leaves the spectator with contradictory feelings.
Yes, I am quite attracted by this theme.
These spaces which I paint were one day very important, offices and big factories built by architects who knew how to give those feelings to those buildings now abandoned.  Nowadays nobody looks at these buildings which are falling apart.  The vision is different.  I am quite attracted by the idea of contemplating these places which were at a stage something important but have been forgotten.

What is the moment of beginning a painting like?
The world of an artist is a parallel world, we seem to look a different way as our way of seeing things is our language, our job which is later reflected in our work.  The view of an artist is like that of a child. And that is why the idea of being in front of a blank canvas is not a drama
simply the opposite.

How do you go about chronically planning a painting?
It is something interior.  Grey is the predominant colour, it always has been.

Something that can always be found in your paintings, José Luis.
A certain type of melancholy. Presence and absence at the same time.

Who have you referred to?
Velázquez, Velázquez, Velázquez. And the cinema. Cinema has a great influence on my work.  I have been quite marked by the aesthetic of a film, because of its light.  An example of this is "The Third Man", with those abandoned streets, those long shadows, the absence of colour, all its aesthetic.  It is still engraved in my mind and I believe that this can be appreciated in my work.

What do you think about the possibility of offering Internet to the artistic world?
I don´t know much about Internet but I am willing to learn.  Everything which is in the aid of helping the promotion of artists I find absolutely fantastic.

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