–What artist is not inspired by the works of a Picasso or a Chagall or any of the masters of the “Cinquecento”? His Latino heritage also brings Diego close to Frida Khalo’s passion, the way she spreads her intimate emotions on her canvas are like a personal karmic gift from her. Diego finds much inspiration and strength from Van Gogh and particularly likes to pursue his fast lines and his palette, filled with vibrating, shimmering colors. Diego’s style appeals to a fast modern world.
-Diego is a graphic designer because a piece paper says so and he probably forgot to ask these questions 20 years later:
“How many times do we have the opportunity to express our inner creativity away from the tedium? How often do we wake up suddenly and run to the sketchbook and draw our dreams?
Since life gave me the chance, I took it. Some call me artist/hippy/bourgeois but, since words don’t define anybody I will simply dedicate a painting to it, have a hoppy beer and some weed. They say, ‘paint flowers and pretty mountains if you want to sell’, but I’ll paint what I love–dreams, feelings, eyes. I paint the minuscule, the immeasurable, the flying and the crawling, broken people, symbols of whatever. I create my own magical ones: fallen gods, risen humans, death and life, psycho and sane–A polluted Earth inside a polluted heart.”
-Through the years Diego has sold a few works and has given away so many more, thus gaining experience and a bigger vocabulary. His cards are on the table. He is like any other human with a mix of past terrors, self hate evolving to self love, inadequacy as a tool and the hope of becoming a better person.
Diego’s muses visit him now and then and, if they don’t find him in a bad mood, they sign a work deal and everything moves along–The call of life.
Diego Ulate 