Tegucigalpa Honduras photocollage (1996) Painting by Baruj Salinas

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Original Artwork Painting, Gouache on Paper

Artworks classification

Original Artwork

Original Artwork refers to any work that is considered authentic and not a copy or imitation of the original works of an artist. Original artwork can be any type of painting, sculpture, performance, or other media. There are many types of original media. Mixed media includes oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings. For workshop paintings that bear evidence of master craftsmanship, this attribution must be further qualified. While they may be less valuable for different reasons, reproductions and copies have had a tremendous impact on our experience. They reach a greater audience than originals and act as a tonic against commodification. Original Artwork could also refer to the first work, which is always preceding all others. It could also refer to a prototype or a model from which other works can be made. Each work bears great similarities to the original.
Dimensions Height 22.1in, Width 29.9in
Categories Abstract

This is an excellent example of original Salinas work on paper, that is from the 1996. The media is gouache, pastel, watercolor, charcoal and graphite. This was done as a photo collage, with a photo by the famed Cuban photographer Mario Algaze. The photo was done in 1981. Salinas only did about ten of these photo collages, in his career. This is among just a few remaining. They are absolutely stunning.

This was a particularly rich period for Salinas, who was deeply influenced by the Abstract Expressionists, and his mentor Joan Miro, who he studied with for years, in Barcelona. Salinas is quoted as saying: "Because of my connection and collaboration with poets and writers such as María Zambrano, José Angel Valente, Pere Gimferrer, and Michel Butor, I developed a concept of the language of the clouds. This consisted basically of a grey background with white as the main color of my palette–the white symbolizing clouds. I also used pictograms, ideograms, and strange alphabets like the Greek alphabet, the Hebrew alphabet, and the Iberian alphabet". On another occasion Salinas was quoted as follows: "To me, painting is not work. It is something that transcends labor. I love to be in my studio painting because I forget about everything else. I’m so concentrated on it that it is like a meditation. I concentrate on what I’m doing and I enjoy it while I’m doing it. I enjoy seeing a wide space being developed into something that has life. It’s always been the most important thing in my life. And architecture was never so.”

Salinas has had over 100 solo shows worldwide, and is in the permanent collection of the following museums:

Art Museum of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Arte del Siglo XX, Casa de la Asegurada, Alicante, Spain.
Bacardi Collection, Miami, Fl
Beit Uri Museum, Israel.
Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain.
Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva, Switzerland.
Cuban Museum of Art, Miami, Florida.
Fundacion Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain.
Fundación Maria Zambrano, Velez-Malaga, Spain.
Fundacion Miguel Aleman, Mexico City
Institute of International Education, New York, NY.
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
Musee Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
John Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida.
Lowe Art Museum (Cuban Collection) Coral Gables, Fl.
McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas.
Museo Alvar Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
Ayuntamiento de Soria, Spain
Museo Arte Contemporaneo LatinoAmericano (MACLA), La Plata, Argentina.
Museo Cuevas, Mexico City
Museo de Arte Moderno, Ibiza, Spain.
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Museo de Villafames, Villafames, Spain.
Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia.
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
Museo Nacional D'Árt de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Museum of Art, Budapest, Hungary.
Museum of the Americas (OAS), Washington, DC.
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan.
Pemex Collection, Mexico City
Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, Arizona.
Public Library, City of Miami, Miami, Florida.
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas.
University of Ohio Museum of Art, Miami, Ohio.
Villa de Montecatini Collection, Italy
Museo Maria Zambrano, Velez-Malaga, Spain

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Gouache

The substances are diluted with water and rendered pasty and opaque by the addition of gum and honey. The colors become opaque and can, therefore, be superimposed, which makes one paint with gouache as with oil. The gouache is recommended by its bright, fresh and delicate tones.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

Artist represented by MLA Gallery

Baruj Salinas

United States

"To me, painting is not work. It is something that transcends labor. I love to be in my studio painting because I forget about everything else. I’m so concentrated on it that it is like a meditation. I concentrate on what I’m doing and I enjoy it while I’m doing it. I enjoy seeing a wide space being developed into something that has life. It’s always been the most important thing in my life. And architecture was never so.”

Baruj Salinas is one of the most significant, and well established contemporary artists this gallery represents. He has work in the permanent collections of over 35 museums, and has had 150 solo shows worldwide, and a significant number of museum shows.

The Cuban Master is now in his 80's. Salina's paintings can be seen in important collections all over the world such as the Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona; the National Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona; the National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico D.F; The Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, the Beit Uri Museum, Israel; the Fine Arts Museum, Budapest; the Fort Lauderdale Museum of the Arts, Florida; the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; the San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas; and the Phoenix Museum of Art, Arizona, as well as dozens of others. Baruj Salinas is a Cuban Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1935. His work was featured in exhibitions at the Coral Gables Museum and The Americas Collection. He studied at Kent State University in Ohio – Salinas found early success as a painter and engraver. He is also an educator, having taught for many years at Miami Dade College. Salinas is regularly featured in solo shows in galleries in Europe and the United States. His participation in group exhibitions includes Recent Developments in Latin American Drawing at The Art Institute of Chicago, Outside Cuba , and Breaking Barriers: Selections from the Museum of Art’s Permanent Contemporary Cuban Collection at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale. He is the winner of numerous awards, including the Prize to Excellency at the VII Grand Prix International de Peinture in Cannes, France; a first prize at the IV Pan American Exhibition in Miami, and a first prize at the Sexta Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano in San Juan, Puerto Rico.