César Santos

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Cesar Santos (born July 10, 1982) is a contemporary Cuban-American artist and portrait painter.

He is best known for his Syncretism, a term he coined in 2011 to describe paintings in which he displays two or more art tendencies in aesthetic balance.

He has held several commissions and his work is on view in private as well as international collections around the world. Santos' work has been seen at the Annigoni Museum in Florence, China, Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Sicily (MacS), and the National Gallery in Costa Rica.

Santos is a member of the Living Masters' Gallery at the Art Renewal Center in Glenham.

Early life and education

Santos was born in Santa Clara, Cuba, on July 10, 1982. He was passionate about boxing as a child. He competed in kid boxing tournaments at a municipal level. Raul Santos Zerpa, a well-known Cuban painter in the 1960s, also started studying art at a young age, impressed by his uncle Raul Santos Zerpa. He and his family immigrated with their families to the United States in 1995, where he was accepted into the Design and Architecture Senior High School. Santos, a student at the Miami Dade College, enrolled at New World School of the Arts for an Associate of Arts Degree.

Santos was also studying acting from 1998 to 2004, with Teresa Maria Rojas, the founder of Protos, a theatre program at the Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, as a student at the New World School of the Arts. During this period, he concentrated on acting professionally and appeared in a number of theatre productions and television shows. However, he opted out and went to Italy in search of painting education, having been dissatisfied with the school's modernist approach. He studied the techniques and techniques of the Renaissance, 18th century, and 19th century French ateliers, under Michael John Angel, a student of Pietro Annigoni. Santos resigned from acting after leaving the United States.

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Career

Santos completed his education in Florence and then returned to Miami in 2006. He began painting still life pieces, but soon discovered that something was missing from his work and began to incorporate the figure into his compositions. He was hired to produce the official poster for the Miami International Ballet Festival in 2007. He made the poster for the Miami International Film Festival in 2008. He made the poster titled Danza Impossible, which received rave reviews, and the next year he was hired to make the poster for the Miami International Film Festival 2008.

In 2008, Santos moved to Stockholm, Sweden, where he started teaching and giving workshops at the Atelier Stockholm. He trained for boxing at the Narva Boxningsklubb as an artist and a tutor. He later competed in the Angered Centrum Box Cup and received the gold medal.

Santos moved to New York City in 2010 to work on Syncretism, which gained critical acclaim and became one of his best known works. Several paintings in which he mixed Pollock, Calder, Picasso, and several others are included in the collection. "Syncretism is a philosophical attempt to reconcile various doctrines, a cultural device that attenuates the contest between antagonistic tendencies competing for the same space." The body of work aims to reflect the most recent trends of the past six centuries. He participated in the Metropolitan Museum's 2010 exhibition "It's Time We Met" in New York and gained first place for his photograph Dancers. He received first prize in the portrait competition at the Grand Central Academy in New York in 2014. Santos was selected first prize at the Concept Art Fair during Art Basel week.

Santos also released Secrets of Portrait Painting, a 4-disc DVD that features him in a complete demonstration of his painting technique using his wife as the model. He begins with a basic drawing and then goes into the painting process of dead coloring, first painting, and his second painting. He is often invited to speak at universities around the world, where he teaches portrait anatomy and structure from various viewpoints.

Santos' work includes both classical and modern interpretations within a single painting; his work has been influenced by Renaissance and Modern Art as well as Contemporary Art. "In an age in which the process of art is often an afterthought," MDC's forum outlined Cesar Santos' work. "The ultimate aim of his syncretic work is to establish a new painterly realm with its own established characteristics," Santos says, "like every other legitimate process of evolution, it gains a foothold in the preceding stages until the opposition's assimilation of the opposing trends is described as a newly created and united entity." In his work, "trained in both classical painting and contemporary art, painter Cesar Santos creates work with vivacity, opulent color, and sensual figures to evoke both a unique view and a sense of irony."

Although the bulk of his career was focused on still life, such as his painting Camera in 2008, people and life-form became the focus of his creation in the later years of his career, depicted by his series Syncretism and subsequent work. Nudes' works are based on nudes' character. In a review of The Artist's Accomplice, the Miami Herald reported that "Santos' procedure is a fluid one." He experiments with new methods and incorporates those that help him work more effectively. He works primarily on linen, which aids in the development of what he refers to as a "neo-academic" technique. The Boston Globe wrote an article about a painting competition in which Santos won the grand prize; the newspaper in part quoted him as "Like a poet will be able to write a sentence." . . We must be able to write what is in front of us physically," he said. "You] control your equipment so that you can express your emotions."

Cesar also has a YouTube channel where he posts painting tutorials and other art-related videos.

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Awards and honors

• Grand Prize and People's Choice Award, Academy of Realist Art Boston Figure Painting Competition - 2016
• First Prize, Cosmic Connection, Concept Art Fair (Art Basel Week) - 2014
• Third Prize, Grand Central Academy Still Life Competition - 2014
• First Prize, Grand Central Academy Portrait Sketch Competition - 2013
• Miami Dade College Hall of Fame Award - 2013
• Grand Prize Winner, ACOPAL's open competition, "Out of the Square" - 2011
• 10 Cover Contest Winners, American Artist Magazine, "Temperance" - 2011
• First Place, Southwest Art Magazine, 21 under 31 Competition, "Young Versed" - 2010
• First Place, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, It's Time We Met Contest, "Dancers" - 2010
• Hudson River Fellowship - 2010