Manuel Domínguez
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Manuel Domínguez was born in Almería on December 5, 1954. Descendant of painters, he is Diego Domínguez’s son, Diego Domínguez Velazquez de Castro’s brother and also grandson of Manuel Velazquez de Castro who, apart from being a painter, was chemist in Zurgena, a village of Almería . The list does not end here because there are several cousins and nephews who complete the saga of painters. His early studies took place at the “Colegio de San José” , located at “Calle de la Reina” in the same building where he was born and spent his childhood until the age of 10.
He does General Certificate of Secondary Education at the institute and then goes to Valencia to study Art at the Escuela Superior de San Carlos, finishing successfully the specialty of painting in 1972 - since then, Manuel is going to devote exclusively to art, treating Most of its procedures such as oil, watercolor, including printmaking, technique he learned and implemented in the School of Arts and Crafts of Almeria , being a disciple of the engraver Jose Garcia Lomas. The sculpture is another of his specialties in which is necessary to mention his importance at the portrait , modeling clay to make busts are then cast in bronze. At this stage of the School of Arts met his wife Carmen María Martínez, also painter, with whom he shares his passion for painting outdoors, working tirelessly and with the attentive eye for any reason that under his approach deserves to be taken to the picture.
In 1994 he was selected for a sample of contemporary painting in Spanish Vianden Castle in Luxembourg. He does single exhibitions in Almería and in cities such as Madrid, Valencia, Bilbao, Mallorca, Granada… and villages like El Ejido, Mundaka, Zurgena, Almuñecar… etc..
In 1986 performed a collection of drawings by places of Almería which was published by the “ La Voz de Almería”, as was the collection of 25 lithographs, "Places of Almería in watercolor."
Other collections were "The Sources of Berja," "Fountains of Roquetas de Mar" and "Fountains of El Ejido" the latter performed with the technique of ink. |