Luis "Giner" Bueno is a master who unites composition, drawing, and chromatic colors to create works of great pictorial appeal and beauty. Giner Bueno has extensive knowledge of the most appropriate pigments to add light and life to a painting. He also has the technique necessary to achieve that juxtaposition of direct, bright colors delicately and indeterminately, thereby producing incredible tones, transparency, and emotions. This style of painting is praiseworthy and authoritative and puts its brushwork lose, yet forcefully at the service of enchanting seashore themes. Valencias’ coasts and its people provide the atmosphere, which reminds one of Sorolla; an effect Giner Bueno seems pleased to invoke. One can find groups of fishermen, women, and children playing at the seashore, and a boat with triangular, Latin sails, billowing out in the breeze, and gleaming in the exhibition of light and sheen. The foregrounds and backgrounds, which accentuate perspectives and contrasts, superimpose a literary narrative of a time to which we will never return. Giner Bueno’s paintings have an attractive vitality and are luminously following the traditions of Sorolla, Pinazo, and Gimeno; masters of the important Valencian school of luminosity unique in the twentieth century. The drawing style, firm and model, has that sketch-like imprint of the best Pinazo, as if intending to capture something more than just the circumstantial outdoors scene. His work refers to the psychological interpretation of each one of his personalities which function as unique elements that work together as a whole. It is the authentic portrait; however, enhanced by the grace of painting which is summed up in Bueno’s canvases as a portrait of the instant, like the basis of impressionism. El Alcazar Newspaper His paintings are truly a delight to the eye and to the spirit. Few painters have achieved such light and sureness in their brush strokes. His canvases seem to have been painted by the imagination. There is hardly anything, yet there is everything; a humanity which is always selected from the humblest social strata; life in the back streets and hamlets, or in the poor interiors of the country and the coastline. His landscapes and seascapes are magnificent, reflecting the divine beauty, which God has placed in all things. I echo the words of Fernado Guiterrez, freshness and force constitute the spontaneous outlines, fresh, precise brush strokes; even the air is painted there above the people, things, simply, the earth. To talk of Luis Giner Bueno is to talk of Godella, of the Godella School, of the Valencian School. It is to talk of a Spanish painter, with delicate sensitivity and a profusion of color. One cannot reduce the importance of his painting. It dominates with its presence. It makes the remarkable stand out - luminous or luminary, impressionist or expressionist. Perhaps it enfolds all four descriptions with more or less emphasis. Undoubtedly each of his paintings holds a Mediterranean impression, transcendence and joviality. Giner Bueno has discovered the earthly mystery of the material, combined with the spirit. Half nature, half soul, and as Ricardo Gulline says, confronted with nature in a state of perpetual change, it’s transformation is so swift that it changes according to the time and the light. Consequently, our artist, living up to such a description, which in this case is his name, looks for the long lasting, essential, and permanent traits. This observer of the history of Valencia keeps within him all the accumulated vitality and expresses it on canvas with generosity...to reach a more attractive and violent passion. It is a dreamlike illusion of what has been captured through the eye; it is the order in the disorder of the magical colors combined with the light of the atmosphere. It is the light intertwined with habitual scenes, found close to the edge of the sea, found in barren lands and orchards, found in its innermost recesses. In all of his work, there is a stream of Mediterranean images, light, shadows, which are not really shadows, but color and vitality. The multiplicity of themes allows for greater diffusion, as wide as is the enormous gamma of striking colors, at the same time squeezing together to emerge from the canvas - part real, part reflection of the unreal, part palpable fantasy. Giner Bueno makes true the axiom of beauty for beauty. Giner Bueno is a master who wisely unites composition, drawing, and chromatic colors to create works of great pictorial appeal and beauty in what they evoke. One cannot reduce the importance of his painting. It dominates with its presence. Bueno makes the remarkable stand out - luminous or luminary, impressionist or expressionist. Without a doubt each of his paintings holds a certain Mediterranean consciousness, transcendence and joviality. In all of Bueno's work, there is a stream of Mediterranean images, light, shadows that are not really shadows, color and vitality. He is a unique painter - both vibrant and startling. Giner Bueno makes true the axiom of beauty for beauty.
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