Leonardo Pereznieto

Leonardo Pereznieto is a Mexican artist, sculptor, and painter. Pereznieto has studied in Mexico, Italy and the United States and has mastered engraving, serigraphy, watercolor, pastel and oil painting, and marble, bronze and resin sculpture.

He has had exhibitions in galleries in New York, Paris, London, Florence, Los Angeles, and Monaco among others and has received the Italy Award for Visual Arts, the award at the International Art Festival in New York City, and the Mozart Prize in Nice, France. He has worked as a set-design painter in Hollywood. He is a graduate of administration from the International Training Organization of California and a graduate of Executive Administration from the Flag Service Organization of Florida. Leonardo is the son of painter and sculptor Fernando Pereznieto. He studied art with his father at an early age and began watercolor painting before learning to speak and walk. His first exhibition was at the age of 8 in the Gallery of Goya, Mexico City.

Leonardo attended an art school in Florence which was complemented with visits to the city's art museums and painting classes with famous artists. He worked in lithographic factories in Florence and Barcelona.

At the age of 17, he exhibited his "High Speed" collection of automobile paintings at the "Continuous Dimensions" gallery in Tijuana, Mexico. Due to the quality of his artwork he was contracted to make some drawings for Volkswagen of Mexico and the Mexican Marine Transportation and he participated in the design of the automobiles used in the racing Junior Formula in Mexico. He attended preparatory college in Mexico. Upon graduation, he returned to Italy to study automotive design at the National Institute of Automotive Science in Modena.

Leonardo was an Italian correspondent for "Amigos del Automovil" magazine which has published several of his articles. His work has also appeared in the magazines "Grand Prix," "Auto Proyecto," "Motor y Volante" of Mexico, and "Autosprint" of Italy.

He has lectured at the University of Michigan and the Celebrity Centre Florence.

Along with writer Claudia Moscovici, he is the co-founder of the cultural movement of post-romanticism. Postromanticism is a contemporary cultural and artistic movement. Human life is rich with emotion, creativity, suffering and passion. In focusing on the subjects of love and artistic creation, romanticism captured our imagination and intensity of feelings perhaps better than any other cultural movement.

Yet all too often this intensity took the abstract form of a ladder of love, leading from the human to the divine and from man to an ethereal, other-worldly muse. Postromanticism brings passion back to earth; finds beauty, sensuality and meaning in our daily, real and contingent lives, and places women, side by side to men, at the center of a mutual artistic inspiration and creation. Postromanticism.com features the work of contemporary artists who celebrate the beauty of romanticism and perpetuate and transform its legacy in their own paintings, sculptures, photography and poetry.

External links

* [http://www.leonardopereznieto.com Leonardopereznieto.com - Galleria en línea]
* [http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/l/leonardop/ Leonardo Pereznieto Artist Portfolio]