What drives a man to paint 50 paintings a year, and to have done so for 40 years? What madness, obsessions and anxieties lie behind his paintings, which are so similar and yet all different? The director explains: "Luis Salazar told me that colors were his alphabet. I was moved and eager to learn to read his painting... Yellow, red, green, blue and black. These five major colors of Luis Salazar's palette open the door to his studio, to his universe. As he creates a painting, Aragon, Neruda, anxieties and passions, intimate and universal stories come to punctuate and illuminate the painter's work and paint a portrait of the man."
What drives a man to paint 50 paintings a year, and to have done so for 40 years? What madness, obsessions and anxieties lie behind his paintings, which are so similar and yet all different? The director explains: "Luis Salazar told me that colors were his alphabet. I was moved and eager to learn to read his painting... Yellow, red, green, blue and black. These five major colors of Luis Salazar's palette open the door to his studio, to his universe. As he creates a painting, Aragon, Neruda, anxieties and passions, intimate and universal stories come to punctuate and illuminate the painter's work and paint a portrait of the man."