by admin | December 3, 2020 | Art, Restoration and conservation
Vintage is the term with what we begin to call any object that takes us back to the style of the twenties of the twentieth century. Because in the twenties of the twentieth century modernity began to label aesthetically. And with this came the “isms” and...
by admin | July 15, 2020 | Art
THE LINING OR REINFORCEMENT OF THE TEXTILE SUPPORT Lining is a technical restoration procedure that involves attaching a lining to the original textile backing. Also called re-sizing, it has been a widely used technique. Already in the times of the Alcázar de los...
by admin | June 7, 2020 | Art
The trompe l’oeils inspirations of L’Atelier de Santi results in open doors with a frame from an inside view. In others cases a frame with a view to the outside. Like this case, “Panorámica del Berrocal”, oil on panel, where the frame is...
by admin | April 7, 2020 | TROMPE L'OEILS
Many of the tricks I expose in The Santi’s Workshop have an ethnological basis. Very ethnological, I would venture to point out, is the content of trompe l’oeils, since the models of life in which I am inspired are collected from my most immediate urban...
by admin | February 3, 2020 | TROMPE L'OEILS
Visual illusion because painting has always pursued illusion through its plastic expression. It is their reason for existing communicating through the vision, as the art of music does through the ear. And create sensations, illusions, and therefore mimic reality in...