Busacca Gallery

Cat Painting: Green-Eyed Cat Perspective: This acrylic on canvas with a resin coat finish captures the enchanting gaze of a green-eyed cat. While I was born in Quito, Ecuador, I consider myself a citizen of the world. Although I hold a deep love for my native country, I chose to broaden my horizons and relocated to the United States in 2004, where I have lived and worked ever since. My father, a painter, influenced my artistic journey, and I was raised surrounded by art. Naturally, I developed a keen interest, skill, and appreciation for texture, colors, and shapes. Specializing in realistic painting, I focus on portraits (both of people and pets), still life, and various other themes. Additionally, I bring a wealth of experience in creating captivating murals. My artistic education includes studies at the Art Student League of NYC, Parsons School for Design in NYC, Academia de Artes Guerrero in Bogota, Colombia, Instituto Tecnologico Equinoccial in Quito, Ecuador, and Universidad Central in Quito, Ecuador. Over the years, I have showcased my work in numerous exhibitions across the USA, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, and Switzerland.

The history of painting illustration is a fascinating journey that spans centuries and encompasses diverse cultures and artistic movements. It begins with the ancient practice of cave paintings, portraying scenes from prehistoric life. In medieval times, illuminated manuscripts adorned with intricate illustrations became prominent, often featuring religious themes. The Renaissance marked a shift towards humanism and realism, with artists like Leonardo da Vinci contributing detailed anatomical and perspective studies. The 19th century witnessed the Golden Age of Illustration, integrating art with literature in works by Arthur Rackham and Gustave Doré. The Art Nouveau movement brought a decorative style characterized by flowing lines and organic forms. In the 20th century, avant-garde movements like Cubism and Surrealism influenced illustration, while the digital age revolutionized the field, allowing for greater flexibility and accessibility. Today, painting illustration is marked by diversity and experimentation as artists explore a wide range of styles, techniques, and subject matter, often blending traditional and digital approaches. The evolution of painting illustration reflects not only artistic development but also broader cultural, social, and technological changes across history.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_%28arts%29

Realism in the visual arts and literature refers to the general attempt to depict subjects "in accordance with secular, empirical rules", as they are considered to exist in third person objective reality, without embellishment or interpretation. As such, the approach inherently implies a belief that such reality is ontologically independent of man's conceptual schemes, linguistic practices and beliefs, and thus can be known (or knowable) to the artist, who can in turn represent this 'reality' faithfully. As Ian Watt states, modern realism "begins from the position that truth can be discovered by the individual through the senses" and as such "it has its origins in Descartes and Locke, and received its first full formulation by Thomas Reid in the middle of the eighteenth century."

Realism often refers more specifically to the artistic movement, which began in France in the 1850s. These realists positioned themselves against romanticism, a genre dominating French literature and artwork in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Purporting to be undistorted by personal bias, Realism believed in the ideology of objective reality and revolted against the exaggerated emotionalism of the romantic movement. Truth and accuracy became the goals of many Realists. Many paintings which sprung up during the time of realism depicted people at work, as during the 19th century there were many open work places due to the Industrial Revolution and Commercial Revolutions. The popularity of such 'realistic' works grew with the introduction of photography — a new visual source that created a desire for people to produce representations which look “objectively real.”

The term is also used to refer to works of art which, in revealing a truth, may emphasize the ugly or sordid, such as works of social realism, regionalism or Kitchen sink realism. In general, realists render everyday characters, situations, dilemmas, and objects, all in a "true-to-life" manner. Realists tend to discard theatrical drama, lofty subjects and classical forms of art in favor of commonplace themes. The term is applied to, or used as a name for, various art movements or other groups of artists in art history.