The work of the Cuban-Jewish artist José Luis Fariñas will be featured in this blog. Besides being a friend of mine, José Luis is an internationally-known drawer and aquarellist. His work is complex, highly detailed and often hermetic. His work is influenced by Dürer, Bosch and Rembrandt. Figures from the Old Testament and Kabbalist themes regularly appear in his art.
Raquel (Rachel)
A version of this acuarelle is exhibited in the Hotel Raquel in Havana.
I live near Boston. I have dedicated my long academic career to seeking the simple in the complex and the complex in the simple. I am keen on free association, metaphor and symbol. I search for explanations by combining the verifiable and tangible with the imagination. Passionate reader of Cervantes, Borges, Cortázar, and the Cuban poet Juana García Abás. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and Lewis Carroll’s Complete Works are always on my night table. I love flat water kayaking and tai-chi.
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