Cristino de Vera

Cristino de Vera has carried out an incredible work as a painter during fifty years, as a result of the admirable tenacity he has shown in his artistic career. His extraordinary capacities as an artist are not questioned and have been recognized by critics. It is not possible to talk about the history of Canarian painting without devoting some pages to Cristino de Vera. His work merges with the memory that feeds artistic creation, an existential legacy he has pondered with the silent and intense concentration of a mystic. He has often been described with this adjective, as his work stems from austerity and poetry, and is based in a particular iconography, which always leads to spiritual reflection and considers death as the only real and inevitable fate. However, it is true that Cristino de Vera in his first stage was focused on landscape and drawing, and he seemed to have different preoccupations.