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This is an excellent example of original Salinas work on paper, that is from his more recent works. It has a photorealist quality, as he obviously took a tremendous amount of time with this painting, to create a lifelike, tropical jungle sensibility. This work is warm, vibrant, sensuous, lush, compelling, gorgeous, and full of passion for life, nature, and physical creation. Salinas is quoted as saying: "Because of my connection and collaboration with poets and writers such as María Zambrano, José Angel Valente, Pere Gimferrer, and Michel Butor, I developed a concept of the language of the clouds. This consisted basically of a grey background with white as the main color of my palette–the white symbolizing clouds. I also used pictograms, ideograms, and strange alphabets like the Greek alphabet, the Hebrew alphabet, and the Iberian alphabet". On another occasion Salinas was quoted as follows: "To me, painting is not work. It is something that transcends labor. I love to be in my studio painting because I forget about everything else. I’m so concentrated on it that it is like a meditation. I concentrate on what I’m doing and I enjoy it while I’m doing it. I enjoy seeing a wide space being developed into something that has life. It’s always been the most important thing in my life. And architecture was never so.” MLA Gallery guarantees the authenticity of this work, and will provide that in writing. In addition we unconditionally guarantee your satisfaction with all the work in our inventory.