CRITICS
"Artists can no more
speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture."
Jean Cocteau
International Artist
Carlos is a prolific artist, with dozens of paintings reminiscent of Spanish
sunsets. These are romantic cityscapes with an edge of intelligence, dramatic
emotions painted with coolness. His perspective is often from a distance,
rendered with watery shapes and warm colors -- his work is perfect for
salons and cafes around the world. Carlos' work was recently featured
in a solo show at CafeTeArte in Madrid.
Katherine Benke
Art Consultant, Insight Art Connection. Colorado USA Thursday,
September 20, 2007
Style: La obra pictórica de Carlos Pardo nos muestra
una forma de expresión figurativa pero especulativa, en la que
la ciudad, auténtica protagonista de sus cuadros, se convierte
en un elemento plástico autónomo, surreal y metafísico.
Sus anónimos habitantes, en especial sus misteriosas mujeres, inmersas
en su agitación o abrumadas y silenciosas espectadoras de su inmensidad,
forman parte del hechizo.
Las formas distorsionadas por la emotividad, la
utilización de colores arbitrarios predominantemente cálidos,
la pincelada libre sin renunciar a cierta ornamentación o decorativismo,
la asimetría, la oscuridad compositiva unas veces, otras la claridad
o el intencionado juego con el espacio…nos remiten a influencias
remotas como El Bosco, El Greco o Goya y otras más cercanas como
el Romanticismo (Friedrich), el Modernismo (Ramón Casas, Klimt),
el Fauvismo y el Expresionismo. A partir de las cuales el artista crea
un lenguaje propio, en constante búsqueda y evolución.
M. Vázquez. Critics & Soul
Style:
Carlos Pardo's painting shows us a figurative, though speculative, form of expression in which the town, the real protagonist of his paintings, becomes an autonomous plastic element, surreal and metaphysical. Its anonymous inhabitants, and especially its mysterious women, are part of its hectic movement or are silent, dazed spectators of its enormity; they are part of the spell.
The forms are distorted by emotion, the use of arbitrary colours mainly warm ones, a free brush stroke which does not renounce to some decorativism (Art-Deco stream), the asymmetry, some times the darkness and at other times the light backgrounds, or the intentional playing with spaces... they remind us of influences like Bosch, El Greco or Goya or others closer to us, like Romanticism, (Friedrich), Modernism (Ramón Casas, Klimt), Fauvism and Expressionism. Using these as starting points, the artist creates his own language, which is in constant development through research and evolution.
M. Vázquez Critics & Soul
