El Rocío y su paisaje en la obra pictórica de Diego Luis Ramírez Trianacrónica de una exposición

Zusammenfassung

This article intends to be the chronicle of an exhibition that, under the title "El Rocío en su Paisaje", brought together almost all of Diego Luis Ramírez Triana's pictorial work on this subject. This beautiful -and unique exhibition was held, thanks to the happy initiative of the Mother Brotherhood and the Almonte City Council, in theJorge Camacho Hall ofthe Municipal Art Gallery, from April 21 to May 30, 2022, shortlybefore the transfer ofthe Virgen del Rocío to her sanctuary, after an unprecedented stay of three years in the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption of Almonte due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Diego Luis Ramírez Triana was born in this Huelva town in 1946. He was a teacher until his retirement, and throughout his active life he was also a great lover ofhistory and the arts, and in particular of painting. In his artistic career he explored various themes and styles, but El Rocío and the surrounding landscapes were his favorite pictorial motif. As could be seen in the exhibition and can also be corroborated in the pages ofthe exhaustive catalog that was published about her, Diego Luis Ramírez managed to capture in his paintings a very personal vision of Rocío, of exceptional beauty and poetic intensity. 'Ihis collection of works, painted with the care of a miniaturist and with a deep knowledge Of Rocío devotion and its surrounding territory, covers a long period of twenty-five years (1983-2008), in which, within an always recognizable aesthetic, They also confirm changes and evolution, from the almost absolute primacy of the image of the Virgin to an increasingly evident protagonism of nature and its creatures. Along this path, the mastery, elegance and emotion, so lyrically expressed, of this great painter from Almonte shine.