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Raúl Moyado

LandE scape

CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW medium offers . Everything proceeds from exploring possibilities and playing with styles which inspire me to personal reinterpretation . For example , during high school I had the idea of creating a couple of video games introducing a pixel art style evoking nostalgia for the generation of 8-bit video games that I used to play .
Thenceforth my formal studies in the visual arts , I began to incorporate the pictorial aesthetic that can be seen in Mobile Cyclorama . In the specific process of this project , it was first important to understand essential aspects of image projection on a spherical surface . To solve this technical aspect and obtain the inverted illusion , I began to work with the scheme of equirectangular projection of images . I needed to understand basic aspects of the illusory " trompe-l ' œil " techniques used in painting . This requires a prior drawing and a clear outlined delimitation of optical distortions that are defined on a large-format digital canvas . Once sketches are well defined , I can work more freely by applying gestural strokes of colors and textures where I let myself be guided by intuition .
There was a particular film that triggered the curiosity to live the experience of being placed inside a canvas . The film " Dreams " by Akira Kurosawa contains a crucial scene where an art student finds himself inside the vibrant and chaotic world of Vincent Van Gogh . In a previous scene , he meets the artist in a field and talks with him . During that time I was an art student also , so I felt identified with the protagonist and his search plagued of doubts yet hopeful of receiving answers through the art work of one of the great representatives of postimpressionism .
At one point of the film , the student loses track of the artist ´ s presence and then he travels through other paintings trying to find him . That tour full of textures and details of oil painting was quite stimulating and inspiring .
While pursuing my academic degree in plastic arts , I used to work as a web developer , designing internet sites in order to pay for my education . I was very aware of new web technologies that emerged at the time . When I saw the emergence of Google maps along with Google Street View , I suddenly