Richard Wagner
Inspiration of Francisco Sanchis Cortés
One of the gifts that life has conferred on human beings is to make possible the recreation of an image in their mind, a creation diluted in a vast universe of images inspired by the environment that addresses their life and concerns.
Music, since I was a child, silenced the deafening noise of thought and silence, giving me the possibility of escaping into a fantastic world where everything is possible. I soon understood the responsibility of the creative act and my willingness to give my life to that dreamy process that others followed before me.
Other souls dreamed of music, and their minds were invaded by a myriad of notes. The creative condition does not grant peace or rest, which is why we find oscillations in the work of the creator, in the soul of the artist: because we must understand that before the pose, stage, clothing and social status, before that there was a tortured mind, Well, every creative act that is largely the child of suffering. Need and desperation is an insensitive minefield: that is, the society of the moment.
My mind sees meanings that may not be what the author intended and that I have captured in a drawing, a painting, or a written text. But, that is no reason to blush, each soul is individual, just as each person sees a work differently, this is how I understand the elevated language of music.
I´ve built images of Goddesses, Gods, and enormous men, as well as understanding obscene and grotesque deformities.
I´ve entered a world without valuing prejudices or fears in order to reach the entirety of the story, from its birth to its tragic end.
A painting will never reach the greatness of a musical work, but it will define what it transmitted to me, what I felt, what I experienced and the impact it had on me. The scenarios never offered me the desired images of my mind and my dreams; So he had to fight to give it shape, again and again: Images are those that hover over the thoughts of a draftsman, an illustrator, a sculptor or a painter.
This is how I saw and lived each character in their own amalgam, this is how I expressed it, this is how I relieved the need to live what I heard.
Richard Wagner is an absolute genius, the painting is glimpsed in the score itself.
A man subject to biographical controversy, attacked and defended, hated and loved in his time, he left us with the change that postmodernism would entail, not exempt from political ideologies that I manage to share or not, but in those in which I can see his personal image being overshadowed, no They do not affect me in the least to understand the enormity of his creative cosmos and his immortal works.
Beyond his combative Gods also came the emotional and transcendent Wagner, where exemplarity, love and Faith are the constants where the genius of Leipzig reaches levels of musical paroxysm never heard before and establishing in Western culture melodies that They are as obvious as the Lohengrin Wedding March so ingrained throughout Western culture.
His great work was decisive for my most beloved musician, Anton Bruckner: favorite son of Divine goodness; simple, fair, humble and unfading man. But there are many great geniuses spread across Western geography and beyond who admired and let in the new form that music had taken, although many fell into the jaws of the “Fafner” of music criticism of their time.
Wagner is here to stay, his imperishable greatness will spark new creations and creative influences, literary, pictorial, sculptural, cinematographic and, of course and above all, musical
Francisco Sanchis Cortés
