Leonardo is called and is Malaga. Child walked between Tomas de Cozar street and the then Museum of fines arts, where the Palace of the court of Buenavista in San Agustín street; a young man, he professed devotion to Mr. Juan Baena, and larger, settled where the swash of the sea breezes our climbing, from the short read beach.

Admire Malaga painting of the 19th, and sometimes one is given to think that it is the last that long Payroll: Muñoz Degrain, Moreno Carbonero, Ferrándiz, Blanco Coris, Simonet, Nogales, Martínez de Vega, Denis Belgrano, which has been prolonged, two centuries after until the 21st (which is nothing more than a dance of Roman number), or the proclamation of a way of understanding the art of painting which is assumed here as well: harmony and beauty together in the purest and most luminous realism.

Eduardo Rueda said of it that it is the painter of the taps. The painter of clear water faucets that exude purity and perfection. Pictures of Leonardo (don’t forget anyone who is Malaga, because if it were somewhere else, or I say!) Needless to them or lack them nothing. Before them, two positions , you are on the leave budge, by art of bilibirloque, which carry within, or self-absorption to a job well done and, then, like taurine, affirm that they have the magic of the cloak of Curro Romero and the site of José Tomas, because Leonardo outboard paint, If it is that the painting can be embroidered, and its backstitches are with threads of light of Malaga and breeze of salt and sea

In his canvases Leonardo makes dreaming still-lifes, drops that slide by roses, ripe grapes of love and memories in impossible vases, threads of water that are lost in the secluded and intimate courtyard where one day we were children and, despite everything, the time ran against us. You place his painting by Tarragona, Lleida and Barcelona. Here is the Goblin of the houses of neighbors in the old streets of El Perchel or La Trinidad, and there the mystery, which we call art is, in the paintings of Leonardo.

Jose Morales