Salvador Medina is an Australian Impressionist artist, of Spanish immigrant’s, Salvador’s art collection spans over 35 years. Salvador's work has been inspired by his passion for uncovering and expressing life’s manifestation.
Salvador collection of works may be categorized into:
Dance and Culture - Aboriginal ceremonies, Spanish Flamenco
City and Rural Life - Melbourne (Southbank, Docklands) and Paris (Eifel tower, seine river, landmarks , Bangkok streets, Rice farming, Tobacco Farming
Nature - sunsets, sunrise, ocean, mountains
Form - portraits, people at work
Sprituality - meaning of life, tragedy
Sport - Soccer (Harry Kewell), Athletics (Cathy Freeman), Cricket (Rick Ponting), Rugby (David Campese), Tennis (Pat Rafter), Cycling tour de France (Cadel Evens, Wiggins), AFL (Carlton, Chris Judd)
The impressionist style displays free brushstrokes which reflect more clearly emotions and feelings at that moment. More recent work fringes on post Impressionism and fauvism which dates during period of 1890 to 1910 with a focus on strong colours. Post impressionists uses vivid colours, thick application of paint, distinctive brush strokes, and real life subject matter. Fauvism uses techniques where complementary colours are used which results in a sharper contrast of colour created by primary and secondary opposing colours. This is opposed to other impressionist work where more analogous colour schemes and tertiary colours are used for lightness and depth.
National Registry of Australian Art and Artists - Artist Registration Number 000-1888
