Painting is the power of suggestion. There is nature and then there is art. When painting you look at something, and then you have to shift your eye to the canvas. There's a few seconds where there's only memory to guide you. It would be interesting if some real authority investigated carefully the part which memory…
Author: fatimaronquillo
Southwest Art, April 2009
Classically Inspired, Best of the West Southwest Art April 2009, p A self-taught artist, Ronquillo learned to draw and paint by studying the works of Titian, Velazquez and Rubens. Her classically inspired portraits evoke a realm where history mingles with imagined characters from opera, literature, and theatre.
The Conspirators: The Artist and Her Beastly Muse
There is a monkey whispering in my ear. Is it a devil or angel, perhaps an alter ego planning dark or brilliant deeds? It's nothing but a conspiring hairy muse. Shakespeare certainly thought it rascally, chiding the idle and absent muse in Sonnet 100. SONNET 100 by William Shakespeare Where art thou Muse that thou…
Austin Chronicle, January 2009
by Rachel Koper “A Grand Affair” Arts Review The Austin Chronicle January 16, 2009 New to me but not the gallery is Fatima Ronquillo, who paints pale women and girls in a classical style. They are dainty, dreamy, and a bit like antique dolls. They have very feminine, lacy clothes that are soothing and cozy,…
Oxford American Magazine feature
"Young Woman with a Cupid" is featured in Oxford American Magazine's The Southern Literature Issue 2009, No. 66, paired with "Rick Bragg Laments His Absent Muse." See it online here. Hits newsstands this week. I'm so grateful to be included among other wonderful artists and great writers. Here, where the history of writing is so…
Condé Nast, May 2008
by Nandita Khanna Quick Trips: The Culture Fix: Austin, TX Condé Nast, May 2008 Many of the art spaces are scattered throughout Austin, but two of the finest are tucked away in the developing West End. On day two, head toward the salmon-hued clapboard house that is the Wally Workman Gallery (1202 W. 6th St.;…
Southwest Art, September 2007
Featured in Southwest Art’s “21 Under 31” Annual Emerging Artists Issue. —Gussie Fauntleroy, Southwest Art, September 2007
Los Angeles Times, February 2002
Color and Bounty by Josef Woodard Los Angeles Times February 14, 2002 The intriguing, exotic paintings of Fatima Ronquillo have been showing up in teasing, small doses in local galleries of late. Now, we get a chance to see a healthy complement of her work in her first local solo show at the Buenaventura Gallery. Make…
An approach on how to learn to paint (recommended books)
There are two schools of thought on how to learn to paint. The first is the atelier based education where technique takes precedence over vision with the goal that if you know how to draw/paint what's in front of you, you can then have leisure to cultivate a vision. The second school proposes that once…
Young Pierrot as Hunter
I worked on my new little Pierrot intermittently over the course of a month. I knew I wanted an austere background, gray and atmospheric but I didn't know how to give form to the original idea. Almost through serendipity, I happened on a lovely and very gray George Inness at the American Impressionism show at the New…
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