Blue Nude

In this page I’m going to publish all the process and information about Blue Nude.

I don’t know how to start so I was thinking on my influences as an starting point.

My background is in architecture, I studied architecture in Guadalajara the hometown of Luis Barragán.

Abstract Influences

Luis Barragán’s San Cristóbal stables in Mexico City from the 1960s.Credit…René Burri/Magnum Photos

There’s something about silence and introspection in the work of Luis Barragán that hypnotized me. How he did that? Whit very few elements and a bunch of color achieve an state of mind.

And then I discovered the Bauhaus, a school of design at the beginning of 20th century that question the way of doing design, art, architecture.

The Bauhaus school, Dessau, Germany, designed by Walter Gropius.
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And with the Bauhaus came Josef Albers and his theory about composition and color, you should check this book in Amazon, just click in the image.

Josef Albers at his studio in 1960.Credit…2016 the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; David Zwirner, New York, via London

Piet Mondrian
*Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red* 1937–42
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So the QR code in the background of the drawing resembles me those squares of Josef Albers but also Mondrian. At the beginning I wanted to put a Mondrian in the background, so this QR that bring you here is inspired in this two abstract painters.

Yves Klein, ANT 84, 1960, collection MAMAC, Nice ; Monochrome bleu sans titre (IKB Godet), 1958, collection privée, en dépôt au MAMAC, Nice, Rocket pneumatique (maquette de Tallon-Technès), 1962, collection privée, en dépôt au MAMAC, Nice © Succession Yves Klein c/o Adagp, Paris ; Photo François Fernandez

Yves Klein has been a big influence for me. His work is like a living teacher about conceptual art, about narrative, maybe the blue color in the drawing has a direct influence from Yves.

Figurative Influences

John Currin Talks X-Ray Vision and X-Rated Art (and Sits for a Photo By Richard Prince)

Joohn Currin is an American painter based in New York City. He is best known for satirical figurative paintings which deal with provocative sexual and social themes in a technically skillful manner. Wikipedia