Comments by Ana Pardo

In this picture, "the fountain of Fame", I didn’t aim to describe the whole of the fountain, or the trees, or even a concrete corner of a space which is already artistic, the Campo Grande of Valladolid. I wanted to express the typical gesture of people who come to the fountain and, because of its height, look up and find a Neo-classical statue framed by the sky. This varies and here we see most clearly the richness of the artist because the physical fountain doesn’t change but its background (the sky) does and so changes the statue itself. That morning while the paintbrushes were flying my imagination was flying too and for a moment I thought that Oscar Wilde and his Happy Prince were circling round the statue.