Many celebrities in film, music and television, in addition to their profession, share a hobby: painting. For most it is a simple hobby, but there are those who have turned it into a second profession: they exhibit in art galleries and their works are quoted for their quality beyond the firm.
"Painting was my first love", the filmmaker Fernando Colomo once said. Luis Eduardo Aute or Manolo García are two examples of artists who cultivated painting before achieving success with music. At the beginning of the sixties, the author of Al alba lived from the sale of his paintings and had exhibited in Paris, Brazil and California. And García studied graphic design because his family did not approve of the idea of dedicating himself to music. "Music and painting are the two passions of my life", he said, which is why he alternates between the stages and the galleries. José María Cano and Jordi Mollà are currently more devoted to art than to music or interpretation, respectively. The first has exposed in Kazakhstan Reality or truth. And the second has just decorated the Casa Beatnik hotel in Ibiza and last year exhibited L'art de transcendir / El llegat del Toro, about Osborne's bull.
The actors Anthony Hopkins or Pierce Brosnan started with painting as a hobby, but they have been creating their own style and their paintings are priced very high. For ex-agent 007, who celebrated his 70th birthday with an exhibition in Los Angeles, painting was his refuge when his first wife was diagnosed with cancer in 1987, and recently a portrait of Bob Dylan was sold in a charity auction for 1.4 million dollars: "If it could be like this forever, I would definitely stop acting", he said. Ronnie Wood could also stop playing with the Stones and devote himself to painting, where he is recognized. Moreover, according to him, he is "a painter who plays the guitar".
In 2018 the musician Alejandro Sanz teamed up with the painter Domingo Zapata for an exhibition in New York, Smile. The following year, filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar did the same with Jorge Galindo for a pictorial exhibition in Madrid, Flors, based on photos taken during filming. In the presentation he stated: "I don't want to use the term therapeutic, but it relieves". “When we're stressed, it's important to focus on the things we know help us feel relaxed. For me this is painting!”, wrote the actress Jane Seymour on the networks. Johnny Deep, Jim Carrey, Sylvester Stallone, Lucy Liu, Viggo Mortensen, Adrien Brody, James Franco, Benedict Cumberbatch, Britney Spears, Madonna, Miley Cyrus, David Lynch, Macaulay Culkin, Michelle Pfeiffer, Beyoncé, Björk, Steven Tyler and Rosie O 'Donnell subscribe to it.
Other examples of famous amateur painters are John Lennon, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. And in Spain, in addition to those already mentioned, Joaquín Sabina, Andreu Buenafuente, María Jiménez, Daniel Guzmán and even Ferran Adrià also paint.
The royalty is also no stranger to expressing themselves or spending time with painting. Charles of England is fond of watercolors of typical landscapes of his country. Margaret of Denmark is also inspired by nature for her paintings, but with an abstract and colorful style. The queen's artistic side goes beyond the brushes and she has designed the clothes and sets for several ballet works.
