Jose L Giner
Born in Valencia, Giner's exceptional artistic
ability was soon obvious to those around him and he was encouraged
to study fine art from an early age. His work was shown across
his home city and received an enthusiastic response, encouraging
him to pursue a career as a professional artist.
This promising beginning set the pattern for Giner,
whose expressive oil paintings have won him considerable acclaim
from the critics and the public alike. Fully aware of the debt
he owes to the greatest artists of the past, Velasquez, Goya,
Renoir, Monet, and Sorolla among others.Giner attributes his
traditional painterly technique and highly developed sense of
colour to their influence. His beautifully executed representations
of the female form display his great love of intense colours,
and demonstrate how they can work together to produce a finely
balanced composition of great immediacy and charm.
Impressive parallels can be drawn between Giner's
work and that of the Royo's. Both were born in Valencia, both
were classically trained, both "matured" into styles
of painting capturing the dramatic visual essence of their homeland-Valencia
and the Mediterranean Sea.
They have both been described as "painters
of the Light"; some have said, "of the Light of the
South," that is, the southern coast of Spain. blended with
his own style that make Giner's masterful treatment of the Mediterranean
subjects both haunting and mysterious, yet full of raw power
at the same time. The sweeping brush strokes, bold swaths of
color, and heavy impasto capture the eye and draws one inward
until that final absolute moment of awareness that one is actually
there in the scene feeling the light and heat of the sun, the
salt and sea spray, and hearing the crashing surf.
Giner's conveys not merely image, but mood and
atmosphere as well. This is rare in today's art world, hence
the connoisseur is compelled to compare with the old masters.
Thus, the appeal of Giner's work for today's collector becomes
obvious.
Giner has been the subject of numerous successful
exhibitions all over the world, and his paintings are held in
both public and private collections.
