Espai d'Art 'La Casilla' hosts the exhibition 'Francisco Díaz Díaz: Water and Paper'

The exhibition 'Francisco Díaz: Water and Paper' can be visited today at Espai d'Art 'La Casilla' on Emilio Ortuño Street, as reported by the Department of Historical and Cultural Heritage. The exhibition, which has been possible thanks to the donation made to the Municipal Archive by his widow, Cristina Boissie, will be open to the public on weekends from today, Friday, June 21, until October.

The exhibition is made up of sketches in which gouache is used as a painting technique and with four themes: flamenco, nudes, urban landscape and traditional ceramics.
Francisco Díaz Díaz graduated as a professor of painting and drawing at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Seville and after marrying Cristina Boissie he lived in Seville, Córdoba, Madrid, Antwerp and stayed to live permanently in Santander.

The exhibition focuses on the sketches that the artist made in watercolour or ink and which he later used to create his well-known paintings. The artist's sketches, with quick and concise lines, captured real life in scenes populated by moving characters, such as flamenco dancers or the characters in his nudes.

His style is a fusion of academic art and the new impressionist trends that were beginning to triumph in his time and which he witnessed firsthand on his trips to Paris.