Culture gives a pictorial conference on ‘El Bosco’ at the Centro Cultural Padre Manuel

The conference ‘Revisiting El Bosco’ will be given by Rocío Garín, teacher of the Municipal Drawing and Painting Workshop, on Monday, November 24, at 7:00 p.m., with free admission until full capacity is reached.

The Estepona City Council informs that next Monday, November 24, at 19:00 hours, will be held in the Press Room of the Padre Manuel Cultural Center a pictorial lecture on ‘El Bosco’, considered one of the best masters of Flemish painting.

The talk, with free admission until full capacity, will be given by Rocio Garin, a teacher of the Drawing and Painting Workshop of the municipal delegation of Culture.

Among other aspects, the speaker will make a tour of the life, style and influences of the work of the painter Jheronimus van Aken (Bolduque, c. 1450-1516), known as ‘El Bosco’, through some of his most famous works, such as ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’, ‘Extraction of the Stone of Madness’ or ‘The hay wagon’.

In this way, attendees will be able to interpret his paintings, appreciate how much of autobiography ‘El Bosco’ reflected in his works, or how much they are topical, and all those aspects that have been discovered in recent years about this enigmatic painter, in order to understand the artist in a global way.

The activity, with free admission until full capacity, is open to audiences of all ages, and aims to promote interest in the visual arts.

Rocío Garín. Since she was very young, the Estepona artist Rocío Garín (1977) has enjoyed “drawing and painting”, an interest that led her to study at the School of Arts and Crafts in Algeciras and, later, at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Seville, where she graduated in 2001. She quickly began working as a restorer of some of the most significant monuments in Seville, as well as church façades in the capital of Seville.

Since her return to Estepona in 2002, she has been teaching drawing and painting, an activity that she combines with three aspects of her artistic facet: as a researcher, as an artist, and as a teacher, she has developed different teaching methods.

In 2013 she published a “Manual de Dibujo y Pintura” (Drawing and Painting Manual), in which she collects the main techniques and tools to take into account in the first year of students’ training.