Granada already has everything ready to house the 39th gala Spanish Cinema Academy Awardsthe acquaintances Goya. It is an expected day that RTVE broadcasts live that allows us to see the best of Spanish cinema and that serves to bring out the power of a quarry that is often relegated by international macroprections or fogged by difficulties in the sector.
The candidacies, in each edition of the awards there is a figure that always, always ends up, among others, Francisco de Goya. And it is that the award is a bust of the Aragonese painter, who took as a reference because the drivers of the awards wanted a short and hook name. The long -awaited statuettes have a great story and are modeled after a great symbolism that is repeated year after year.
An exclusive statuette
As explained in the Goyas portal, the sculpture is initially modeled in mud and also copies into plaster from which they create a ‘mother’ silicone mold to produce all copies, which are made with wax. With the statuette made, a sculptor is responsible for correcting imperfections and performing manual touch -ups With a palette to subsequently cover the wax with plaster and then melt bronze and bathe the statuette.
How much weighs and how much a Goya measures
The process is totally manual, from here to there are no exactly the same copies of the awards. The metal, in addition, takes a definitive color thanks to the application of fire and acids. Of course, now they present similar characteristics if statuettes of almost 15 kilos were initially made now usually weigh Between 2.5 and 3 kilos.
All of them measure some 32 centimeters And they are based on one of the first molds that were used to manufacture the awards. In this case, the bust that Mariano Benlliure de Goya designed in 1902 is taken as a reference, when the awards were neither existed, which began to be held in 1987. The first statuette as such, however, was the work of the Malaga sculptor Miguel Ortiz Berrocal.
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