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JAN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH CONTEMPORARY REALISM

"I would like not to use the term Hyper-realistic but Realistic because my intention is not to go beyond what is real.
I understand where the term comes from and the reasons for it and its connection with photography, but I have seen so many bad paintings done using that term that I want to stay out of it. My intention is not that it would look like a photograph, but I love expressing reality, the gesture of the brush, the ability, the treatment of light, and a certain classic way of understanding the image."
-Javier Arizabalo

By Ariel SU

Spanish artist Javier Arizabalo is passionate about realism. He carries out his works with different techniques, but it is in oil where he finds the most expressiveness since it allows him to work in full detail, understanding the light and the structure of the human anatomy. His successful creative practice

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