The Blue House

The Blue House is an urban landscape made in 1963 by the Spanish painter and sculptor Guillermo Silveira (1922-1987). It is painted in oil on tablex and its dimensions are 52 x 57 cm.[1][2]

To the right of the work, you can see the house that, because the façade was painted that color, gave title to the painting, in which was then the popular bar El Faro, located in the old "Campo de la Cruz" or "Alameda Vieja" (current "Plaza Reyes Católicos"), [3] a few meters from the well-known Puerta de Palmas of the capital of La Paz.

Artistically, the study of the piece reveals a deep knowledge of authors such as Ortega Muñoz, Benjamín Palencia, Gutiérrez-Solana and, in general, of the so-called "School of Madrid". Chromatically, earthy, grayish and sienese colors predominate, opposed to a series of complementary tones (reddish, greenish ...), arranged in large planes or masses of color very delimited by thick black strokes, as well as an abundant use of pictorial matter, typical of this first phase of the artist, which together with the use of the deformed perspective so representative of his landscape work accentuates the dramatic load of it.