Jorge Warde resides in Argentina

Jorge Warde was born in Córdoba, Argentina, on September 7, 1946. Since an early age he was keen on pen and ink drawing. When he was 10 years old he received a copy of Don Quixote illustrated by Gustavo Doré. He was impressed by the illustrations and decided to study, using a magnifying glass, how the different shades of grey were performed, and tried to imitate them. When he was an adolescent he worked with pen and ink. The subject was huge imaginary machinery. These works of 50 x 70 cm in size took Warde up to 4 months of elaboration. Why did he choose this subject? Probably because since he was a young child his father used to take him to his textile factory for a visit, where there were huge machines that processed threads into large rolls of cloth. These images became permanently engraved on Warde's memory.

His biological illustration works at the Center for Applied Zoology led him to a new subject of his artistic works: birds and wildlife art. He is interested in wood textures, surrounding vegetation and landscapes that make up the habitat of the birds he paints. The specialist Mercedes Morra de Bianchi gave an accurate definition of Warde's work in an article published in the prestigious newspaper "La Voz del Interior": "the hyper-realism prevailing in some artistic sectors of the 70's have provided Warde with a base of universal validity to assume his own capacity of realism, largely cultivated in his work as a scientific drawer. This work demanded strict discipline, detailed observation (using microscope at times), and the use of an abstraction element many times ignored in this field of reality interpretation that scientific drawing entails: the permanent movement of the net vision focus in each centimeter of the plane, when all of us know for sure that real vision experience provides us with small neat sectors and large gradually blurring areas out of that focus. Jorge Warde's drawing is definitely anti-impressionist, based on one of the premises of the latest hyper-realism: the "sharp focus" option, in all the plane surface. The third impact perceived, and here we must go from analysis to synthesis, is the combination of the elements mentioned with the lyric spirit of the creator who combines his handicraft and capacity of a technically experienced observer with a fantastic and subjective game that in some of its images reminds us of old stories illustrators (Gustavo Dore's influence)

Surucua Comun
(Trogon)
Acrylic on canvas
Image Size: 45 x 35 cm
Price: $ 3,500 (Shipping extra)

Warde has performed a valuable collection of paintings
of birds from Argentina on rheas' eggshells (Rhea americana),
which are individually signed and numbered.