Alvaro Izurieta nascent Buchardo (Cordoba). After five years, driven by an older brother, began to draw horses and from their vocation allno is apartarde. In 1968 he joined the School of Fine Arts Figueroa Alcorta and made his first exhibition of drawings in the gallery Feldman of Cordoba. In 1970, at the suggestion of Don Carlos Stutz, moved to Buenos Aires to attend the courses in your workshop makes the sculptor Antonio Flores Puja. Meet many of the important figures of the plastic Argentina: Alonso, Berni, Castagnino, Seoane, attends museums and exhibitions in a boom time in the plastic arts. Back in Cordoba, is related to teachers Aran Francisco Vidal and Henry, with whom he begins to paint and pastel leo. Find in the portrait path of interest to study the shape and, at the same time, a real possibility of living of the profession. His exhibitions in the country are often to happen today. In 1975 he moved to San Paulo (Brazil) for the important collection of the Museum Chateau Briand Ass. In 1978, he traveled to Spain to study at the Museo del Prado to the great teachers, who made copies, visit the collections of Toledo and Barcelona, Museum of Modern Art, Museum Mir. He is interested in pictures of Joaquin Sunyer. In 1979 he founded the Victorica workshop, where he teaches drawing and painting. That same year he was awarded by the Stock Exchange as one of the "Ten Outstanding Youngsters Ao, and Diario Córdoba galardn distinguishes the" Men of the culture. " In 1981 he settled in Unquillo, where he currently resides. Encouraged by their environment, beginning in the study of mountain landscape. His house is visited by young people seeking advice and orientation. In 1995 the presidency of the nation gets its play "The Lady Nia" currently contained in the Vatican Museum. In that same year he was hired by the Favaloro Foundation for make the portrait of the prestigious cardilogo. The National University of Cordoba, the Academy of Sciences of the same city and the Academy of Moral Sciences and Politics of Buenos Aires make their Chancellors and Presidents Gallery of portraits of Izurieta. His drawings have illustrated various publications including the book "Shalacos" George W. Abalos and "The Conquest of the Desert" by Carlos Di Fulvio, for CBS Columbia. In 2002 out in the Italian cities of Florence and Prato, in theaters Theatre & Galley Cafdel Mentana respectively. In 2003 and 2005 presented in Cerrito Art Gallery (Cordoba). In 2005 his image suffered a transformation expressionist palette with a more intense and higher contrast. PERSONAL REFLECTION ON YOUR PAINT: "My relationship with painting is intimately tied to my location to the world and mankind. It was a journey of self-knowledge and therefore knowledge of modems . The intense preocupacin for dominance the pictorial techniques has led the modelacin IMPLIED my character and the fulfillment of my dreams. "Alvaro Izurieta ALVARO IZURIETA BOOK (available from the most important bookshops of the country) Published in Cordoba, in 2005, contains comments critics of his work has developed over twenty-five years (1980-2005), Ascom also numerous reproductions of paintings, drawings, watercolors and pastels. Some excerpts of comments critics: "This uncompromising attitude to service of a higher ideal tendrque bear fruit in a great work, but more than that, a great artist. That is the expectation that opens this sample Izurieta, a humanist in the best race. "Coco" Feldman (exhibition of 1971-Galera Feldman "If an artist's work synthesizes the entire history of art, the work of Alvaro Izurieta as a whole, deberrecrear particularly the history of painting next to Argentina and contradictory testimony IMPLIED scorched earth amid a landscape of enormous wealth and beauty and grace of its people in a hopeless scope of poverty. "Alvaro Izurieta Pablo Izurieta, Gauguin on Hiva Oa wild and naked power. The Argentine maestro Alvaro Izurieta is shown as a connoisseur of the human figure, particularly among women and the power of attraction he exerted for the female nude. Women as the core, but also humans in general. opts for faces in great detail, emblematic features of unique people, of people of diverse cultures. Today has a more expressionistic work, which shows the power of desestructuracin of reality, increasing the enigma of characters, also the intensity of color, the force of contrast, but in line with mantenindose general treatment of the human figure, and also the faces of the bodies, authentic sculptures. Knowing the human body, but also of the physiognomic animal, which shows in his excellent work horse, on this occasion, displayed a series done on purpose, entitled Gauguin the Savage of Hiva Oa, dedicated to Paul Gauguin, Symbolist master. A Paul Gauguin abandoned impressionism to become the champion of the Symbolists, demonstrating its commitment to the pure value of line and color on the plane. Paul is concerned with pictorial subtlety, showing a concept very marked, but without direct themed classic resources of traditional painting., Devoid of perspective, but rejoices in the meaning of the symbol. Alvaro Izurieta pictorial displays in his homage to Gauguin set his predilection for the female nude, always showing the painter indgenas francs with the object of artistic attention. But, besides, in his watercolors, pastels and oil paintings in this series finds the availability of the work of a great painter, which dominates the wash, color, matter, the superposition of layers and transparencies. Her sensual stroke, his handling of curves and gestures of the characters, the central character himself themed, Gauguin, hacindolo creble, or showing work in their own self-portrait, that of a painter pint of memory, which is limited to the circle of inspiration, the artists who are original, because they remain faithful to their own need to be by artist painter. A creator, the Argentine, who has a slide formation, which is evident in the way of exercising control of the stroke, painting with color, because of the intensity goes to the consideracin subtle, features the implied perfectly defined, according to whether the figure and its position. Captures the spirit of Gauguin, captivated by the wild, which is nothing but the very nature and its people, looking her up, life in full freedom, back to our beginnings. In ahque Alvaro Izurieta, who is a being captivated by the natural beauty, embark on the commitment that human beings have with themselves, looking for the Determination of force in dealing with female characters, full of innuendo and naturally essential. If we focus on your most recent work of expressionist character, regardless of the series we are discussing, its willingness to go find more allde the figures and their circumstances. Today it is not concerned only about the effectiveness of the features, by the bombast of the factions, the sensuality of her characters, authentic, exotic, but who cares about the mystery. In his expressionist works introduces an attitude of mystery, far away, in the sense of discovering an interior set designer, which nourishes the ways in which curves and s basic features remain, but that besides, there is a presence of subdued details the general interest of creation that are not, because he has become invisible. Exhibits high component of pictorial composition, in the sense of achieving a definition of their intentions, others are not everyday moments that reflect their characters, as also is the case of the series dedicated to Gauguin, the painter and his models, or by determining the significance of the figures, the personality of men and women who parade through his paintings, people who possess a remarkable sense of reality. His painting, in general lines, reflecting character, pesonal, strength and vitality. Technician with a domain Estelaborada incontestable, which highlights the way he treated the characters, sometimes drawn with Determination, increasing interest by their marks, or other caracterizndose for showing outer and inner serenity. Alvaro Izurieta is a creator of characters and mysteries contained in the most essential of life, because it delves into what it is and that influences the DAAD in the present moment. Live for today, from travel in the past, the current insertndose vitalist moment, immortalizing the moments, and then turn them into metaphor. Joan Llus Forestry International Association of criticism of Arts