Miguel Aguirre

I have created a group of oil paintings with imagery exclusively appropriated from stills of American films. I refer to each work as an attempt to represent fragments of the visual Americana throughout one of its most significant and potent cultural products: cinema.

On this occasion I have chosen the Top 10 most considered American films of all times using the list that the AFI published in 2007: Citizen Kane, The Godfather I, Casablanca, Raging Bull, Singin’ in the Rain, Gone with the Wind, Vertigo and Wizard of Oz.

The combination of the narration of true facts and fictional tales seen by massive audiences makes this selection a source to understand American idiosyncrasy and thus, the so called American dream.