Video: And the savior came: the surreal alien of the Spanish graffiti artist Liqen
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Despite being a Spanish artist Liqen has long made a name for himself in the graffiti community, from time to time he tries himself in traditional painting on canvas. His latest acrylic work is a reference to both the anime aesthetics in the tradition of Hayao Miyazaki and the traditional Spanish surrealism of Salvador Dali. The painting is called "Flight of the Savior" ("Flight of the Savior").
The usual theme of most of Liqen's works is fantastic creatures that simultaneously resemble insects, and mutated people, and futuristic cyborgs. His previous creations include creepy flying and crawling demihumans with mechanisms instead of eyes, as well as industrial landscapes in which you can contemplate how people, giant grasshoppers and rats work side by side on the production of strange substances.
You can get acquainted with the work of Liqen on the artist's website, where he regularly publishes new works. Photos showing the artist in the process of work or showing the public an unfinished version of one of his creations, allow you to appreciate how thoroughly Liqen does the work of drawing the details. In this he reminds his Spanish colleagues, about whom Kulturologia.ru already wrote - the pointillist Miguel Endar and the master of cutting from leaves Lorenzo Duran.
According to the artist himself, he draws creatures that live "beyond human reach." His "Savior" is a strange but attractive visitor from other worlds, acquaintance with whom contributes to the "healing of the spirit." Critics find Liqen's style original, although he himself does not deny his influences - from Japanese manga to Spanish surrealist artists, on whose work he literally "grew up".
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