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Ignacio Guerrero (left): Ignacio Guerrero was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco in 1963. He received his degree in graphic design from the University of Guadalajara and was art director for several prestigious publicity agencies in the city, illustrating numerous magazines and newspapers. Later he abandoned the world of publicity and dedicated himself to painting which offered him total liberty of expression in the surrealist style.His work has been shown and recognized in Mexico, New York, Australia and Italy, where his work was selected by the committee of the Bien al Internacional De Arte Contemporaneo to be exhibited in the 2009 event in Florence, Italy. His paintings in oil and acrylic evoke a strange universe of birds, cages, horses, mermaids, men and women in metamorfosis, perhaps coming from his dreams or imagination and utilizing his own painting techniques to enhance the poetry of his expression.
Jonathan Soto (right): This young artist from Aguascalientes, Ags. displayed his super realistic art in Galeria Vallarta a number of years ago, but returned to his native city to work in his family's cheese business. Now Jonathan feels the need to return to his art, but in a surrealistic style, utilizing his knowledge of realism to create fantasy themes that capture the attention of the viewer. Basically self taught, Jonathan has a great future in the Mexican art world.having successfully exhibited in various cities of Mexico. |
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 According to the major spokesman of the movement, the poet and critic André Breton, who published "The Surrealist Manifesto" in 1924, Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in "an absolute reality, a surreality." Drawing heavily on theories adapted from Sigmund Freud, Breton saw the unconscious as the wellspring of the imagination. He defined genius in terms of accessibility to this normally untapped realm, which, he believed, could be attained by poets and painters alike.
The major Surrealist painters were Jean Arp, Max Ernst, André Masson, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dalí, Pierre Roy, Paul Delvaux, and Joan Miró. With its emphasis on content and free form, Surrealism provided a major alternative to the contemporary, highly formalistic Cubist movement and was largely responsible for perpetuating in modern painting the traditional emphasis on content.
Two artists have just recently joined Galeria Vallarta´s group of talented artists who will be displaying their unique outlooks on art in the surrealistic style. More and more clients are looking for paintings that require the viewer to do more than just glance at a pretty scene—they want to think about the content of the painting, what the artist had In mind when he created the artwork, what feelings he produces with his images, and how he uses his imagination or his subconscious to create provocative art. | | |
