Ramon Llovet
Prints Available from Grafos Verlag
 Paths of the Wind  It Thinks the Sea is the Sky  Pigeon Sanctuary |
On his dove, flower, village and
sea motifs 'Paths
of the Wind' - over the blossoming meadow, across the field,
above the crops, the three doves, the summer and its recollections are
golden yellow. Something of the free breathing of the landscape and
the playful flight of the bird, quiet, alive and beautiful comes across
here. This is one of the first of Llovet's prints to be carried out
in the Grafos Verlag series. The dove takes on the lead role in Llovet's
artwork. Here it climbs high as a bird of the spirit, climbs into the
depths - 'It Thinks the
Sea is the Sky'. The delicate root can be turned around to become
a tree, a tree of the skies, blue on blue (1978).
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 Niño y Paloma  Under the Silver Silence of the Moon |
There is a pink and a blue period in Catalan art of this century. One of the most famous representatives of them, besides the great master Picasso, naturally, was the painter Montserrat Gudiol. Resonances of this softly resigned melancholy of pastel tones can be found in Ramon Llovet's portrait, 'Niño y Paloma' (Boy and Pigeon). It distantly recalls the portraiture of Redon or Valengin. The softness, the pink of the youthful face, the gentle pigeon, the delicate modulation of light. Ice blue and ultramarine, and the pinkish-red
of blood conjured up under the moon. 'Enchanted
in the Garden I Found You' is a harmony of colors. The roses
and the moon, the night and its yearnings. All rose poetry may be created
from memory: 'Under the
Silver Silence of the Moon'. A small person appears among the
flowers as if by magic. the flowers reach well above his knees - pink
here also, and green, this color lithograph from 1978-80 is delightful.
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 Boundless is the Arch of Joy  And Joyful Were the Flowers All Along the Path |
The night colors in these well-preserved
lithographs are related and dreamily still as well: 'Boundless
is the Arch of Joy' and 'And
Joyful Were the Flowers All Along the Path'. The small village
seems enchanted, and the small person under flowers and under the sky.
When paintings are like islands, then they are small islands of happiness.
An exquisite lithograph, almost as if an original painting were adorning
the wall: 'My Dreams
on the Garden Wall'. The white pigeons awake before the symbolic
cross in the background. Very few prints remain in stock from this edition
- as well as from the edition of the painterly color lithograph (in
lengthwise format), 'Summer
Games'. In this print, something of the security of green can
be felt. 'Two Children in a Glade', the sensation of peace and at the
same time of being lost in the forest, the view, a leaf, as if it had
arisen from the colorful depths of a fable.
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 Dorada Tardor  There Where the Roaring of the Sea Rests  Sota la Llum del matin |
The village, always the village on the coast. In 'Dorada Tardor' (Golden Autumn), the seasons and the light reflect the landscape. 'There Where the Roaring of the Sea Rests' or 'Casas en Azul' (Houses in Blue). In the print 'Sota la Llum del matin' (Under the Morning Light), the cypresses are still dark. And 'Maritima': a small town on the sea, a cove, an oak forest. 'My Eyes Know of Your Peace and Your Light': are those olive trees with their nets, catching the ripe fruit? Is it harvest time? The hillside has become darker, the village sits in oblivion in the warm light. The poetic Ramon Llovet lived here. Waiting for the morning - this becomes a motif in many
of his images. Other times of the day also appear, as in: '
l'hora del capvespre'
(The Hour of Twilight): olive trees, a cove, tranquility. The sea can
be obtrusive, and it can discreetly withdraw. Llovet painted it almost
from an inner sentiment of distance - or perhaps it is the autumn and
winter seasons which make everything so still in some prints.
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 The Land Ripens in Dreams  I Will Soon Meet the Sun |
'The
Land Ripens in Dreams', Ramon Llovet says in this print. A burnt
out landscape, baked in the sun. Autumn or winter in the South. A well in
the center, people gathered round it, clouds recede - the land is wide.
'I Will Soon Meet the Sun':
a head of grain becomes a symbol, under the sickle of the moon, the field
awaits the morning, the mountain range in the distance already blue. The
play of the wind and a hill in: 'Paisatgo
i coloms', (Landscape with Pigeons).
Flores
y cristal (Flowers and Crystal) - Friedrich Herlt had called
this beautiful color lithograph 'Flowery Dreams'. It is, in reality, an
evocation of the mysticism of evening, the secrets of blossoming - and
wilting. In the mirror of recollection, the crystal shines. A night-blue
print, still ornamentation. ek
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