Monks, saints, masks and monkeys
«They often ask me why I always change the style and it is because when I exhausted the change, because art, first of all, must be something that I like and give me pleasure,» he said Rafael Coronelon some occasion, about his work.
Paintings like Friends, The red universe, The rest and Titian They express the great influence of Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Goya in the plastic of the Mexican painter. Colonel's paintings and sculptures We have pointed hats, blue or red bright funds and characters in a mystical and hypnotizing atmosphere.
If we look like Colonelthe blues of the sky of Zacatecas, works such as Venetian, distracted monkey, the distrustful cat, baroque concert and The thread of the beetle They are the ones that will give us the feeling of looking directly to the sky of the artist's region.
Great specialists, as well as talented writers have opined from Rafael Coronel's work. «He had a gloomy style and created characters between reality and fantasy» are what names such as Salvador Elizondo, Fernando Gamboa, Carlos Monsiváis and Ramón Xirau have said about the painting of Zacatecano.
We have the blue of the sky
Last year, May 7 Colonel He died at 87 years of age in the city of Cuernavaca, Morelos, and his absence has left a great empty in Mexican plastic. However, we have their masks, the magicians and the saints that painted us on canvases and tables and leaves us the memory in their museum in Zacatecas.
But, we believe that the most important thing I leave Master Rafael Coronel is the infinite possibilityembodied in The blue of his paintings of waiting for the unexpected in bizarre scenarios that enclose the familiarity of the sky under which we live.