Raúl Ballesta: modern life

With his painting, he plunges the viewer into the most colourful contours of the contemporary spirit.

The Fauvists associated colours with sticks of dynamite. And Raúl Ballesta certainly detonates an explosive chromatic repertoire with which he creates exuberant expressions of modern life. The blend of bright tones becomes an expansive mix of dynamism and energy as it releases the intense contrast between warm and cool.

He resolves his compositions in a very original way, pairing free, quick, direct Impressionist touches with the force given off by the most striking tonalities.

Raúl Ballesta uses this highly suggestive style to carry us off to the bohemian, tempting Moulin Rouge. A temple of Parisian fun in the modernist Belle Époque, which he dresses in the stunning tones of Fauvism. Or to Dublin's emblematic Temple Bar, whose surroundings breathe the joy of the night air. He also recreates crowded shopping streets in New York or Barcelona, with echoes of groundbreaking Pop Art.

That said, he also depicts more reflective landscapes under the chromatic burst of Fauvism. From a different perspective, he carries out scenes that feel Impressionist in nature. He catches the moment and steeps it in nuance. In this way he manages to paint colourful urban sunrises, where you can take in the effects of sunlight behind the dizzying buildings of the big city.

Raúl Ballesta's creative proposal reveals an appealing combination of loose brushstrokes with firmly outlined silhouettes on canvases full of colour. He thus conceives his own language, one he uses to interpret cheerful scenes of modern life.
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