Tileworks in the Principe Pio Mountains

Some readers may not be familiar with this brilliant Spanish painter. Hopefully this article will encourage you to view his glorious landscapes for their detail, colour mastery, emotion and compositional value.

Today Carlos de Haes would rightly be described as a realist painter. Near photographic quality of the subject. Prior to photographic equipment in the mainstream we can all appreciate that portrait painters provided an extremely useful service. The existence of landscape artists shows us that art is more than just documenting people and their lives.

Art is intrinsically linked to our very being. It allows us to immerse ourselves in a different world. An altered reality perceived by our unlimited imagination. Painters like Carlos de Haes tap into this thirst for sights that are pleasing or evocative to us through their artistic flair and creativity.

Intuitively we are saying I know what you enjoy to see and I want to stir up emotion within you. Is the painting a chance composition? Can you see that the positioning of subject material has been considered carefully for artistic aesthetics?

Like the vast majority of artists we will make alterations to landscapes, objects, abstracts, expressions or bodily forms to grab the attention of your heart and mind. Even emotion itself will be reflected in water or sky almost as if to know how it was feeling that very day.

Carlos de Haes encapsulates this sensibility within us with his beautiful landscapes. No human being can be seemingly everywhere at once like the wind, the sea or the sky. Landscape Artists gift us with this desirable opportunity. We are there where they are in that moment. Isn’t this truly wonderful? I do enjoy this spiritual intellect within our minds.

Please take a look at Carlos de Haes complete works and if you would like to let me know your favourite painting then I would be glad to receive an email from you. My intention is that you might really struggle to arrive at an ultimate choice.

Hasta luego my friends