FEAL VEIRA, Mª JOSÉ
Calle Pío XII, 1 - 7º C
15001 La Coruña.

Feal Veira, Mª José.  Born in La Coruña (Spain).

María José Feal Veira studied drawing and painting at the “La Coruña Arts School” where she was taught by painter and muralist José Luis Rodríguez for 6 years. At the same time, she studied Classical Music and Dancing.

At the age of 20, the artist moved to live in the Ampurdán ( a region of Catalonia in northeastern Spain), reading Romanic Art and Gothic Art at Girona University.

Feal Veira drew in Ampurias, Ripoll, Port de la Selva and Cadaqués, where she met Dalí and held her first exhibition (1973).

Living in Madrid, she attended the “Circulo de Bellas Artes” Fine Arts School (where she practiced drawing).

In Madrid, she participated strongly in political activism and was one of the founders in 1974 of the “Asociación Para la Evolución Cultural” (APEC – Association for Cultural Progress ) with a clearly progressive trend. She was one of the now mythical May 68 generation and participated in various civic action forums.

On returning to La Coruña, she attended open university courses, such as “Literary Ethics and Aesthetics”. From Santiago University, among many others, she took courses on “History of Galicia”, “Latin-American Literature”, etc.

As National Files, Museums and Libraries Researcher, she attended High Specialization Courses organized by the Real Academia de Bellas Artes (Spanish Royal Academy of Fine Arts).

Her works have been shown at art galleries and exhibitions in Ampurdán, Barcelona, Madrid, La Coruña, Mexico D.F., Boston, Philadelphia, Brussels, Buenos Aires, etc.

Her mastery of drawing is the foundation of her entire pictorial work, followed by light and color.

Maria José Feal Veira’s paintings and her cultural work in general depict a series of circumstances in time and a series of contrasts in space permeated not only with light and color but also with the painter’s human dimension. With her expressionist reality, Feal Veira’s paintings convey a vast process of humanization drawn from her own human identity.

Each stage of the painter’s private life, with her own unique characteristics, is imbued in her work. This is seen in her first paintings, where landscape and portrait sketches predominate. This is Feal Veira’s first stage, at which she makes constant progress to reach greater heights.

The most characteristic symbols of María José Feal Veira’s painting all show, however faintly, her Galician origins, stated in semiotic terms, using an expressive language that emerges from her compositions: figures that have something to say; urban landscapes; evocative mountains and plains; still life that comes alive. A definitive and open language with full echo and resonance is yet another evocative element of her painting carrying a message and therefore also reality and expression.

Finally, the great subjects of Feal Veira’s painting commence precisely with that reality, filtered through imagination, and installed in the very heart of her real expressive realism and finally constitute an accurate set of significant entities. In essence, if there is something that Feal Veira's painting represents from the very depths of her being, it is significance.

Colors are sometimes monochord while at the same time they are strongly energetic, in vivid reds and intense blacks.

This painter's work is variegated in landscaping, portraits and figures. As a basis, an excellent drawing technique and, as for colors, beautiful greens, immaculate whites, severe ochres and crepuscular light, imbuing her painting with great force.

The fundamental expressionism of her painting becomes gradually more acute with the passing of time.

FERNANDO MON
(Member of the International Association of Art Critics)
La Coruña, 1.994

Fernando Mon, La Coruña, 1920.

Fernando Mon has experience in all literary genres, from poetry, through novel to essay, crowning a life devoted to cultural creation.

Fernando Mon has published art criticisms in both national and foreign newspapers and journals and has given many lectures in Spain and America, where he has often been invited. He has given courses at the Menéndez Pelayo University in Santander -branch of art- and at conferences and seminars, including the Budapest Socialist Art Congress.

In 1992, he authored the book entitled “La Belleza en el Arte de María José Feal Veira” (Beauty in María José Feal Veira’s Art).

His work was distinguished with the prestigious award of the Gran Cruz de Alfonso X el Sabio (Great Cross of King Alfonso X) by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.