The Golden Age of Spanish painting in the 17th
century has to be one of my favorite periods of art history. And what I particularly love, is the realism
of masters Diego Velazquez and Jose de Ribera who with their uncanny eye, had
the ability to capture the essence of their sitters, whether royals in their
magnificent dress or urchins in their disheveled rags.
Fast forward 400 years and we have the work of acclaimed Spanish-based,
French photographer Pierre Gonnord (b. 1963) whose body of portraits has caused
a stir in the collecting world. Gonnord
spent the last couple of decades photographing the marginalized in Europe …
from monks to immigrants … and capturing their humanness, much like it was done
by the Spanish masters in the 1600s.
In a world where even your goldfish can take a picture,
these serve as testaments that not anybody can create art! There is a huge difference.
image credits: Pierre Gonnord, represented in Europe by
Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid and Hasted Kraeutler, New York
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