I saw Santiago Carbonell's work at the Museo de Artes in Guadalajara, Mexico. I was struck buy the life-like photographic imagery he was able to produce with a paintbrush. The eyes of the faces he painted were a window into the persons soul. It was a s easy to see the pain, the joy, the life of the person he had painted through his dipiction of their eyes. His attention to detail and technical perfection is what he is reknowned for.
I was also interested by his use of 3D in the image above. The stigmata wound on her hands actually protrudes from the painting with rather crude, papier-mache. This i think could have been created more successfully but the disbursions and spraying of blood crete the impression that this is not her blood but the blood of the painting. It is an exciting effect that makes you delve into the possible meanigs in and behind the painting.
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