Aranjuez 1996

Alejandro Cabeza made "Aranjuez", with oil on canvas. Look at how Cabeza plays with light and shadow! The park emerges through strokes of thick impasto, capturing the energy and movement of nature. I imagine the artist standing before the scene, brush in hand, squinting, trying to catch the way the sun filters through the leaves. You can see the brushstrokes, like they’re dancing across the canvas. The contrast between the cool greens of the foliage and the bright highlights creates a vibrant, almost shimmering effect, doesn't it? It reminds me of impressionist painters like Monet, but there’s something more grounded, more solid about it. Maybe it's the way the benches and columns are rendered. Painting, like any good conversation, is about call and response; it's a dialogue between the artist and the world, each influencing the other.