The Dream of Arantzazu Martinez Painting Acrylic Print

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Realistic acrylic painting of Spanish painter Arantzazu Martinez with her painting The Dream, painted by the Dutch fine artist Paul Meijering - the original painting is 90 x 120 cm.

Arantzazu is a classically trained artist, schooled in the academic painting techniques of the 19th century. She is the only Ibex Master who paints from live models, resulting in nuances of light, volume and even temperature, setting her apart from her fellow masters in the collection.

An alumna of the Universidad del País Vasco in Bilbao and the New York Academy of Figurative Art, she refined her classical salon painting under her mentor Jacob Collins, founder of the Water Street Atelier, the Hudson River Fellowship and the Grand Central Academy.

Arantzazu draws inspiration from kindred painters such as Marià Fortuny, Joaquín Sorolla, and, further back, Diego Velázquez, and what she describes as "the pictorial power of the Iberian landscape." Building on Romanticism and Symbolism,...

For almost 33 years now, Paul Meijering has been active with the paint brushes. As a 17- year old inspired youngster he joined the Academy of Arts in Enschede (Holland) in order to receive a native training in drawing- and painting technique. At that time (1980) the tendency of the abstract was running riot, and to his dismay and disappointment Paul found that the trade of the ancient masters was merely 'old hat', the realistic art being disregarded and looked down upon. After two years of useless botchery, there was only one conclusion to draw: "get autodidact, be a self-taught person!" Paul then left the academy to work for a living, but at the back of his mind there always loomed the passion of his life: to paint. At his spare time...