The first course of the Children's and Youth Classroom of the Art School exhibits their work at the Casa Saturninita

The students of the six groups of the Children's and Youth Drawing and Painting Classroom of the Municipal Art School of the San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council are exhibiting a selection of the pictorial work they have been doing during this Thursday at the Casa Saturninita Art Center. course.

 

The exhibition, with a wide range of styles, themes and techniques, is made up of 51 canvases painted in absolute freedom of line and expression by fifty young people between 7 and 18 years old, tutored in their first year of learning about color and uses. of the brush by the plastic artist Vanessa González Navarro (Maspalomas, 1985) who made the selection of the works exhibited among more than 300 creations.

 

 

 

The exhibition, which can be visited in the morning and afternoon until May 31, was inaugurated by Mayor Marco Aurelio Pérez Sánchez and the Councilors of Education and Culture, Elena Álamo Vega and Esther Delgado Sánchez. Numerous relatives of the budding artists attended the event, quite excited fathers and mothers but above all grandfathers and grandmothers who admired with glowing eyes and broad smiles the works drawn and colored by their grandsons and granddaughters. The teacher thanked them for their attendance and participation in the event, and the mayor encouraged them to continue promoting their children's interest and vocation for painting. “I was worried that we didn't have artists in the municipality, but we really see that there are many young vocations, a lot of desire to work and very good teachers,” said Marco Aurelio Pérez.

 

Among so many vocations, Vanessa González highlights the majority number of girls in the municipal drawing and painting classroom, “a sign that art in San Bartolomé de Tirajana is not as masculinized as soccer.” She also highlights the “enormous creativity, imagination and hyperactivity” of her small students, “many more awake than adults to capture and interpret the most unimaginable details on the canvas,” she says.

 

The youngest of the apprentices and exponents of this exhibition is the little first-year Primary student at the CEIP Oasis Neiel Ojeda Santana, six years old, who attended the inauguration accompanied by his parents and grandparents. He prefers to paint than play soccer, because he says it amuses him and in soccer he takes unnecessary risks. His very early and constant vocation for home painting motivated his parents, considering it “a fabulous resource,” to offer it to him as a teaching alternative. And he accepted it without hesitation to express himself and have fun painting all kinds of animals. In the exhibition hangs one of his studies on the use of color and perspective. It's a canvas of avocados. He states that he rests playing Nintendo, “because there is always time for everything,” according to his mother.

 

 

 

 

The second deputy mayor and councilor responsible for the area of ​​Education and Culture, Elena Álamo Vega, states that “with the launch of the Children's and Youth Drawing and Painting Classroom we want to offer a space for cultural leisure and training in the plastic arts to the numerous families with sons and daughters who prefer and put this type of recreational skills before any other entertainment activity or sports practice.” Its workshops are given during the school year, from October to June, from Monday to Thursday, from 16:00 p.m. to 20:00 p.m.

 

The exhibition, according to the professor, “is a celebration of the diversity and talent of the young artists of our community. They invite us to see the world through their eyes and share unique visions of the world around them. It is much more than just a collection of works of art. “It is a testament to the creativity, imagination and limitless potential of youth, and a reminder of the importance of nurturing and supporting future generations in their pursuit of beauty and truth through art.”