BIOGRAPHY
Solis was born in Apatzingan, Michoacan in 1958, and started sketching and coloring as a youth, excelling in the drawing classes at his primary and secondary schools. As a teen, he knew he wanted to become a painter, so he taught himself how to paint. With confidence and inspiration, he left home and headed to Guadalajara to become an artist. This turned out to be a very difficult task, as he had to earn a living by doing portraits-knocking door to door.
Solis has experienced many ups and downs in his career as a painter. One of the most dramatic and challenging periods occurred in 1986 when he decided to give up painting, burning all his paintings, oils, paintbrushes and easels. For the next ten years, he did not even touch a brush, but when he started again, the results were amazing. After painting numerous styles under various pseudonyms, he still believes his best works of art are his two children, Oscar and Maria Libertad. And he and his beautiful wife, Juana are inseparable, as the often paint together. Now they inspire each other.
Today, this is his primary way of expression and he continues the creative process believing that more and more people will become familiar with and admire his beautiful art.
Solis paints in the distinct style called photographic realism and the themes of his paintings include indigenous tribes of Mexico, horses, birds, still-life and Africans, Apaches…
He is proud of his culture and he loves to paint these images in his works. However he is a restless man, always looking for new subject matter. Most recently, he´s been tackling abstracts.
The great diversity of themes within Oscar Solis´ paintings reflect his self-taught skills, as well a need to communicate his emotions in a simple and fascinating way.
Oscar Solis´ statement “Today, for me, painting, is and activity of life, but it is also a job and a language where everything is silent. In realism, there exists something far more evident, a dialogue, a communication of multiple ineffable relations. That is something small, but of the greatest importance that exists in what we to do day to day.
Solis has experienced many ups and downs in his career as a painter. One of the most dramatic and challenging periods occurred in 1986 when he decided to give up painting, burning all his paintings, oils, paintbrushes and easels. For the next ten years, he did not even touch a brush, but when he started again, the results were amazing. After painting numerous styles under various pseudonyms, he still believes his best works of art are his two children, Oscar and Maria Libertad. And he and his beautiful wife, Juana are inseparable, as the often paint together. Now they inspire each other.
Today, this is his primary way of expression and he continues the creative process believing that more and more people will become familiar with and admire his beautiful art.
Solis paints in the distinct style called photographic realism and the themes of his paintings include indigenous tribes of Mexico, horses, birds, still-life and Africans, Apaches…
He is proud of his culture and he loves to paint these images in his works. However he is a restless man, always looking for new subject matter. Most recently, he´s been tackling abstracts.
The great diversity of themes within Oscar Solis´ paintings reflect his self-taught skills, as well a need to communicate his emotions in a simple and fascinating way.
Oscar Solis´ statement “Today, for me, painting, is and activity of life, but it is also a job and a language where everything is silent. In realism, there exists something far more evident, a dialogue, a communication of multiple ineffable relations. That is something small, but of the greatest importance that exists in what we to do day to day.
