User:Leonardohidalgo

LEONARDO HIDALGO

ARTIST :www.leonardohidalgo.com

LEONARDO HIDALGO www.leonardohidalgo.com

== BIOGRAPHY ==--Leonardohidalgoartist (talk) 03:42, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Ecuadorian by birth, Hidalgo, has made the United States his home since 1990 and embraces, breathes and lives painting as a career ever since. Leonardo Hidalgo is one of the busiest Miami based leading artists whose work has attracted international acclaim and is collected worldwide for his fine art paintings and memorable portraits of famous faces. Amazingly, he doesn’t limit his mediums and is widely recognized for his eye popping vibrant color and glitz and glamour timeless executions. He melds photography, computer graphics, pastels, paint and fabric to create his wide variety of individual art pieces. He is one of those artists whose work c reates the visual memory of our popular culture. Hidalgo lived in Arizona, where he went to ASU Tempe, and then later studied at the Fort Lauderdale Art Institute. Since then he has traveled around Europe, Asia and South America where he further cultivated his art skills. He began painting at a very young age after his grandmother taught him the technical aspects of drawing and painting. His main sources of inspiration are traveling, famous people who have changed the world, music, Japanese culture, beautiful woman, history and the magic of every day life and people.

He has been commissioned by corporate, public and private entities, including Hillary Clinton, Marc Anthony, Alejandro Sanz, Janine Howard, Enrique Iglesias, Dan Marino, The Convention Center of Guayaquil, The Jade Miami of Fortune International, The US Open Polo, and has been the official artist of the Supercar Experience for the past four years.

Media and Publications Featuring Hidalgo: 944 Magazine, Art Now!, Art Miami TV, The Miami Herald, El Universo, Haute Living Magazine, Key Biscayne Magazine, Ocean Drive, The Miami News Times, Art Guide Miami, Social Miami, NBC networks, and many others.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Art is inside all of us. All we have to do is to have the ability to let it out and express our emotions. When I am painting I feel like I am creating a new world and I want people to feel the high intensity and energy of my work with the colors, concept and techniques I use. It is not what I paint, it is how people feel about it when they see my artwork. I want people to see and feel how passionate I am about my work and inspire the same passion in others, to go and live their dreams in whatever they want in their life.

When it comes to technique, I create with whatever tool or material I have at the moment of creation. I mainly work with acrylic paint on canvas mounted on wood and covered in resin, which brings out the brilliant shiny colors to life. When I paint, time is relative. I spend whatever time it takes with my pieces. Every piece is always incomplete, endless, like an eternity... Unfortunately, I have to stop, and let it go, because I am not attached to material things. I identify with pop and conceptual art. Artists like Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Basquiat, among many others, have had plenty of influence in my work. My creative process mostly begin in my dreams. I consider myself a person that never sleeps. I just close my eyes and when I “sleep” I am creating a new world. My vision is to be beautiful to the world and the world will give you in return what you deserve. That is why I give my best in my work. I don’t say it with words, I communicate it through my art. I like to paint positive things and infect the world with positivism. And in the future I hope to stay healthy so I can continue painting and keep on spreading the energy. Leonardo Hidalgo