Auto retrato en azul (self portrait in blue) 1999

Ramon Oviedo made this self-portrait in blues, maybe while wondering what it means to look back at yourself. It's all thick paint, layered on, like he’s building a face out of colour—every stroke feels like a question. What does blue mean for him? Is it melancholy, or is it a way to see deeper, to get past the surface? I can imagine Oviedo standing there, brush in hand, wrestling with his own image. Look at how the glasses are painted – not just as objects, but as these frames that shape how he sees, and how we see him. Each dab of paint seems intuitive, a search, not just for a likeness, but for something truer. He’s in conversation with artists like Picasso and Beckmann. That's how artists work; we're all just trying to figure it out together, one brushstroke at a time.