Jacob Aguiar, an American pastel painter, was also a doctor. His pastel landscape paintings have a mottled charm, bright colors and loose brushstrokes.
The image originates from the internet
Jacob was influenced by Richard McKinley's pastel paintings in 2011 to paint. He sees painting as a way to provide respite, both for him and for the viewer of his work.
The ancestors of those who were related to painting would take care of him, and although he wrote late, he quickly won the recognition of the industry.
His paintings present a relaxed beauty, he said that painting is like a breath, whether he is telling everyone that they should find a way to let the nervous self rest, the rest he found is to paint pastels.
Did he paint to release nervous emotions? At least when I saw his paintings, I could feel a kind of emotional release.
The painter seems to be using the powder hammer to explode nature's way, in releasing emotions (pictured above). Not to destroy nature but to sublimate the beauty of nature to the extreme of his brushstrokes.
Of course, some paintings are quieter (as shown above). At this time, the painter was kissing nature with Israeli powder? He was a doctor who went to paint in the scenic area around his residence on holidays. This is indeed a kind of rest, another way of working, is the best rest, but also the most comfortable life.
In fact, the home in everyone's eyes is not necessarily perfect, and even the beautiful scenery is numb because it is commonplace. Only after becoming associated with the painting can the eyes become sharp, and the natural scenery is not beautiful, it can be beautiful under the painter's pen.
I like to see dynamic pictures, I like to jump rhythmic patches of color, I like to release aesthetic expression without restraint (as shown above).
When a plume of grass in a snowy field can be carved by the sun into a fiery feeling, what reason is there to doubt that the painter is in awe of life! By the way, he is still a doctor, and his understanding of life is probably more layered than that of a simple painter. Therefore, the snowy grass in his pen will have the feeling of burning.
When sunlight penetrates the branches, erodes the trunk, and turns the trunk into a scorching part, the sunlight in the painter's heart symphonizes with nature. The rhythm of the light in the picture makes people feel at the scenery.
It's a good autumn! Autumn color is golden, and it is also the color of Xiao Xiao's falling wood. The painter said that painting can be a breather, and I would like to say that there is beauty in the painter's way of breathing!
Jacob's light seems to speak, and what is the bright yellow on the grass communicating with the yellow white clouds in the blue sky? The bright picture brings the audience's mood brighter.
Drawing light and shadow is to paint nature, and the scenery with deep layers reflecting the turquoise and deep layers actually paints a dazzling picture in the contrast between red and green. The warm colors are used too high-grade!
The tilt of the composition shakes the colors, and in the colorful surge, the autumn colors are in front of people's eyes. Bright but not delicate, pure and not stunned. Was it the pastel tool that made the brush, or did the painter play with the pastels?!
Another mind-stirring picture, the painter Jacob seems to be crackling in the picture with a coloring scalpel... It is almost like a skilled worker, but the works that come out are recognized by the people in the industry and are not craftsmanship.
The beauty of Western painting is inseparable from the relationship between sketching, and Jacob Aguiar may have been born to understand the state of black and white and gray in the powder. I didn't find any information on whether he had studied art, and I could only guess that he had studied medicine and had not studied painting, and had become a painter by virtue of his hobbies. It seems that having a full-time job, and then writing and painting in a "breathless" way, can have unexpected gains...
(After sharing, curiosity grew: I wonder if anyone wants to copy Jacob Aguiar's paintings with gouache or oil paintings...) ）
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(Tao Haoxiao on 2022-2-17 night)