Sensitive and subjective, the paintings by Dora Lopez, are purely emotional, since always part of a feeling each picture of her is then a story that at the same time is part of its own history. “My works reflect feelings and emotions, which come from the different experiences and circumstances that occur at a certain moment”

Dora Lopez showed her vocation and drawing skills since she was a child, those conditions led her to the National School of Fine Arts, which she entered in 1982, where she discovered the world of her dreams and a life full of shapes, textures and colors and maybe much more than that, he found that painting was a broad world to live and that everything could be expressed through it. The first year she studied in the workshop of Elio Palomino, but in the second entry in Andrés Molina, where I do regular work with models, and the classic drawings of still lifes. In his portraits, he pursued the essence of the characters he drew, perhaps because of that, that the face is the expression of the soul. After that common stage for all, she received the influence of Cubism and Molina herself, from then on Dora Lopez began her search to find her own language, then her emotions and feelings began to play a fundamental role in the construction of each of his paintings, to which he added elements collected from his research in the cultures of the past. Soon they would have lands and fabrics as symbols that allow a link between their personal history, with the other history, the great history, then papers would appear, always written and in their symbolism transmit that story to the future. Dora Lopez’s painting is totally abstract, and despite not recognizing a single figure, in her paintings there is always a character who is represented as a beam of light that travels through history.

The basis on which it sits is its past, and the horizon to which the future is directed, its moods will make that past or future bright or gray depending on the moment it goes through, a sad memory will result then in a gray box the future can be indecipherable, it will then have the same tonality. when optimism invades it, the future is in the broad and luminous picture. His painting always starts from an emotion, that state in front of the canvas, it provokes a charcoal drawing, then he sticks stones, sand, papers or glass. for which it uses glue or acrylate, then it begins to stain, later it pastes later it puts lighter colors. immediately after with brush or charcoal makes his graphics, works what he calls his drippings to which usually add gold dust and finally their lights clearer. Dora Lopez graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in 1987 with the third prize in her class. then he won the first prize awarded by the Barranco gallery at the school’s annual exhibition. His first solo exhibition was held at GALA SALA DE ARTE where his work was influenced by Orphism. Orphism was a denomination given by Guillaume Apollinaire, to artists who created a universe with elements not taken from visual reality, but created entirely by them, they supposed a rhythmic dynamics of color and consisted in transferring the cubist composition of the painting to the ground of expressionism. ” for his second sample, I travel invited to exhibit in the Art Room of the Municipality of Valparaíso Chile and the third in the Praxis Gallery of Peru, before leaving for Poland specially invited by the Embassy of Peru of that Country. It is the beginning of a promising career that was undertaken by Dora Lopez, who according to the critic Luís Lama, could be considered as the highlight of her promotion. A first step, no doubt in the difficult search to transcend his time and his history.