Reverie 2017

Luis Álvarez Roure made this painting, called Reverie, with oil on canvas. There’s a kind of hushed intimacy to this scene. I imagine the artist observing this woman at her piano, perhaps his wife or a close friend, in a moment of quiet creativity. The light is soft, filtered, creating this envelope of stillness. You can almost hear the gentle music, the clink of the keys, the dog snoring. Álvarez Roure has such an acute sensitivity to light. It’s not just about the visual, but about how light can evoke a mood, a feeling. The tonal range is limited but nuanced, from the dark piano to the muted glow of the windows. You can sense the artist’s own reverie in creating this scene, like he’s finding a visual harmony, an inner peace, in the act of painting. This invites us to slow down, to listen, to connect with our own moments of reverie. It’s like we’re invited into the artist’s thought process. What’s more intimate than that?