The Fine Art Legacy of Jorge Kuhliger

The art production of J. Kuhliger is the outcome of a great talent, a higher academic background and a consistent professional development; he was a Professor of Plastic Arts and Masters in Fine Arts but primarily a gifted Artist whose comprehensive knowledge of art, creative imagination, exceptional aesthetic sensibility, versatile plastic dexterity and enthusiastic dedication, allowed him to consolidate a well-defined style that is distinguished by his deeply evocative conceptualizations, the complex meaning of the thematic content of his scenes, the coherence in his composition and his impeccable technical craftsmanship.

  J. Kuhliger's passionate interest and the formal research on the Anctient Mayan Culture were the sources of inspiration and the topics found in all his excellent art production, which is organized in thematic series, all of them characterized  by scenes with neat  composition plans that vividly express their thematic content; he mostly employed  large formats to render spectacular effects with the dwelling space, the voluptuous shapes of the elements and their interactions; the great control that he had over the plastic properties of the media and the techniques allowed him to achieve images of excellent quality.

  The set of four Oil Canvases shown in the Gallery of this website are currently available for sale; they are part of The Mayan Cosmogony Series, which is one of the finest artistic achievements of J. Kuhliger; this excellent  series of oil paintings started as the associated Art Project of a research on the ancient Mayan Mythology initiated during his Masters in Fine Arts. In this Series Kuhliger conceived scenes with coherent composition plans that faithfully connote and express the complex conceptualizations of the Cosmogonist Mayan myths; skillfully capturing the mythical legends in realistic scenes that portray the live interactions of monolithic entities that characterize the abstractions of the structure and the elements of the Mayan Universe.

  With great plastic dexterity, gaudily creative imagination and neatly eloquent aesthetic design plans, Kuhliger brought to life in his splendid and very suggestive scenes the symbolism of the iconographic codes that narrate the legends of the Mayan Cosmogony; giving substance and dwelling space to the mythological characters that he used as plastic morphemes to depict the relationships that exist among the entities that represent the natural resources, the structure and the principles of the cosmic context. In his scenes the symbolism is handled as a concert of codes plainly expressed with an explicit graphic syntax that conveys a plethora of evocative metaphysical concepts of the Cosmogonist  perspective of the Mayan Culture.
  From the design point of view, in the scenes of the Mayan Cosmogony Series, Kuhliger employed plans with natural spatial composition to render a realistic dwelling effect and a coherent dynamic unity with all the graphic elements; he used the most luminous layered painting technique to build depth and details using all the latitude of his oil color palette; this canvases have the most stable preparations and the best quality art materials available; the fine craftsmanship that characterizes this series of  his exquisite art production is a tangible evidence of his great aesthetic sense and technical proficiency.; J. Kuhliger's Fine Art Legacy has erned the right to have its own place in the History of Art,  to remain as one more testimonial of the excellence of the Mexican Fine Art.
  In the Oil Paintings of the Mayan Cosmogony Series, J. Kuhliger used the “Layered Ala Prima Oil Brush Technique" on large format Canvases of 120 cm. X 100 cm. (4' X 3 1/4'); applying W&N Oil Colors (AA and A Permanence) on a Base of White Acrylic-Casein Emulsion. The Substrates are Neutral pH Heavy Strand Cotton-Linen (70/30%) Crosshatch Canvas that was prepared with a deep imprimatur of White Iridescent Polyvinyl-Acrylate Gesso. Kuhliger employed only top quality art materials, his Artworks were meant to last.
  J. Kuhliger’s art production has turned out to be both, fine art and illustrative documents; as all his masterworks are the concurrence of an extensive documentary background, a great artistic talent and a very high technical proficiency.

  The Art of Jorge Kuhliger has received relevant acknowledgement  from the public and the institutions , it has been published, exhibited and auctioned at the most renowned Art Forums, Cultural Institutions, Universities and Art Galleries of México, such as “The National Institute of Anthropology and History of México”, “The National Institute of Fine Arts of México “, “The National School of Plastic Arts”, “The Academy of San Carlos”, "The Mexican Congress", "The Fine Arts Institute of San Luis Potosí", “The Cervantino International Art Festival of Guanajuato”, “The Autonomous University of Guadalajara” and many Art Galleries and Art Forums of Mexico City, San Luis Potosí, Guadalajara, Guanajuato, Monterrey, Yucatan and Quintana Roo;
In the United States, the exhibition and the auctions of J. Kuhliger’s Art Production at Art Galleries and Fine Art Exhibitions, were coordinated by the art management services of Art Escape West International of San Francisco, California; in 1995 was created the first official website dedicated to the Artistic Legacy of Jorge Kuhliger.

  The four Oil Paintings that are available for sale in this website are signed original Kuhliger's Fine Art masterpieces that were officially registered in the National Registry of the Artistic Patrimony of México in charge of the National Institute of Fine Arts of Mexico INBA.

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