Paintings as elegant and idyllic as ballet – claudio Brevo works to admire

Claudio Bravo, a Spanish "surrealist" realist painter, must have been very delicate in style and academic in his work.

Born in Chile in 1936 to a family of ranchers, Brevo attended a Jesuit school at an early age. Before devoting himself to painting, he danced ballet, worked as an actor, and devoted himself to writing poetry, and was a talented writer.

Brevo did not receive much professional art education, and studied painting for three years only in the master's studio of the Romantik Academy of the Catholic charity, which trained students in a very orthodox, even conservative, way of training students, forbidding disciples to paint nudes, but the training procedures were unusually strict and completely faithful to traditional norms. As a result, Brevo became an orthodox academic artist, especially in portraiture.

He was quite talented in painting, the classical masters were his teachers, but he did not mud ancient, but found his own realistic methods and treatment methods, for ten years, he was painting portraits of people, including in the streets and parks, so gradually painted a reputation, the upper class people want to ask him to paint portraits for himself, his portraits, seems to paint an eternal meaning. At that time, he was famous in Europe and the world.

But after a long time, Brevo was not satisfied with the current state of his art, tired of wandering around Vanity Fair, there was not much progress in art, he was afraid that sooner or later he would be imprisoned by death, so Brevo was far away from politics, far from history, away from human fireworks, bought a house in Tangier, Morocco, and began a monk-like quiet life.

The location of the house is simply superb, empty and secluded, across the sea from Spain, and in the clear weather without fog, from the hillside, you can clearly see the beautiful natural scenery of Spain on the other side.

He devoted all his energies to painting, not even visiting relatives and friends, not traveling and entertaining, treating painting with religious piety and holyness, artistic perfection also encouraged him to work diligently, painters also built gardens, sometimes went deep into distant desert areas to study gardens, villages and vast wild landscapes, and often observed crowded Arab markets to hunt for subjects of interest. In addition, American writers and readers often visit, and sometimes strange faces are seen in the painter's room, and they all become models for painters.

In Brevo's paintings, both still life and animals seem to have their own feelings and personalities, his pictures give people a quiet and ethereal beauty, all the complicated and muddy things are erased, only the quiet and pious soul remains, he uses a magician-like expression to sublimate the inanimate things into living, spiritual, and attractive holy things.

His works are exquisite and general, rich in intriguing and simple and concise, and find a balance between simplicity and complexity, which is the painter's high degree of control in the overall sense of the picture, and all the subtle expressions of the parts and even the details never violate the overall generalization.