Ramón Castellano de Torres
Ramón Castellano de Torres (born August 31, 1947, Ceuta, Spain) is a Spanish artist.[1] The critics of art are in the habit of cataloguing him as a fundamentally expressionist painter, but his long artistic career and for his wide variety of styles and cultivated technologies makes it extremely risky to do it so categorically.
The son of an excellent draftsman and of an outstanding painter, Castellano decided to devoting himself to the plastic arts at a very early age. Since 1976 he has resided in Morón de la Frontera (Seville).[1][2]
Ramon Castellano's painting is sustained on two fundamental props: the composition and the color. His painting includes varies from the purest and academic realism, with his marine and urban landscapes, up to the hardest abstract expressionism, with his famous juxtapositions of color, and the elegant and studied composition that he develops in all his works.
His catalogued work, numbering in the thousand, is very distributed by the Spanish geography and by the rest of the world, specially in Japan, Germany, Argentina, Cuba and the United States. Ramón Castellano has works displayed in such galleries of art as: Artelista, My Gallery, Museum Cross Blacksmith, Artmajeur International Appeases, California, Arshumana, From the Plastic arts (Sculpture) (Argentina), With the Art, Spectrum, Galleon Hispavista, To liberate Yourself, There cures Society International, Artatoo, GVAES Gallery of Spanish Art, Key Patron (Republic Argentina), Blue Ice, Art Vital, Dynamical Art, Art Today, The Friends of the Art, Art Tract, Empires, Art in Ligne, Álvaro Hernández, DevianART (Hollywood, California), Gallery Aberta (Oporto, Portugal), Civila, Hispanic World, Your Art, Artede, Digital Consciousness Artis Database, Dotecome (Portugal), Foundation Antonio Segovia Lobillo, Contemporary Matetena Arte, Avisen-Avk Art Gallery (Denmark), Margencero Revista Haystack, Art Enebral, Babele Arte (Italy), The Saatchi Gallery (Your Gallery) of London, Lakewood's Yessy Gallery (Colorado).[1]
He is a contributor, with articles and illustrations, to cultural and pedagogic Magazines such as "Oil-mill", "From the Border", "Kikiriki", etc. He is the illustrator of diverse children's stories. He has written and published several books on the history, geography and artistic monuments of Morón de la Frontera.[3]
References
- ^ a b c "Biografia de Ramón Castellano de Torres". artistasdelatierra.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 July 2010.
- ^ "Biografia de Ramón Castellano de Torres". Biografias y vidas (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 July 2010.
- ^ "Ramón Castellano de Torres - Exposición de pinturas - (Revista Almiar)". margencero.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 July 2010.