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The Brilliant Paintings of ARANTZAZU MARTINEZ

An academic  painter from Vitoria, Spain. She attended the Fine Arts University of the Basque Country and graduated in 2000.  Unable to find any classical art training, she moved to New York. There she enrolled in the New York Academy   of Figurative Art (NYAA) MFA program and graduated in 2002.

It was during this same year that she met her mentor, Jacob Collins, the founder of the Water Street Atelier, the Hudson River Fellowship and  The Grand Central Academy.  To develop her training still further she studied under him at the Water Street Atelier from 2002 to 2005,  where she completed her training following the nineteenth century academic  method.

The technical expertise, the considered  compositions, the exceptional treatment of light and the human form are evident  and much appreciated in Martinez’s  work. The symbiotic relationship of these elements creates imagery that evokes   Romanticism and Symbolism.

Her work has the ability to recreate a dream world where magic and fantasy are  part of reality.


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    THESE ARE PAINTINGS AND NOT SHOPPED PHOTOS????????
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