Tomás García Asensio - igallery

Huelva (1940), lives and works in Madrid.

Biography

REAL ART This GEOMETRIC ART of mine may be called OBJECTIVE PAINTING, although it is just as subjective as any other. One might say that objectivity is only apparently contrary to subjectivity. Because subjectivity is what springs from the intimate depths of a person while the objective is really that part of the subjective which is logical, rational, free from all caprice and arbitrariness. And such is the case of the aesthetics I practise. But, otherwise, it comes from the soul as do all. It is often said of this objective art that it is geometric, but it is only so in appearance. Because geometry has axioms, postulates and theorems, while geometric art has none of these. It has geometric figures, but they are not mathematical. The artistic quality of geometric figures is that they represent nothing and the art we are referring to is non-representative. For example, a drawing of a triangle is not a representation of a triangle, it is a real triangle, in which the sum of its three angles is equal to two right angles, while, to give an example, no blood runs through the veins of a person painted. Figurative or representative art can be realistic. Geometric art is real. But the real subjects of my paintings are the colours. Forming colourings or combinations of colours. I do not choose the colours in my pictures on a whim, rather they belong to a previously contrived system. A sort of chromatic geometry or grammar. A geometry unlike Euclidean geometry, and non-Euclidean geometry, in which what is important are the figures and not the colours in which they are painted. While in this chromatic geometry the colours are more important than the figures they determine. Geometric art is often flippantly accused of being dehumanized and this is not the case, quite the contrary. Because in geometric art there is a lot of thought which is not opposed to feeling, and thought is probably the most human of all feelings.

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Azul oscuro y verde sevres, 2019
Oil on canvas
80 x 80 cm