Mercedes Pardo: The master of color and the abstract (+Christmas)

Published at: 20/07/2024 08:51 AM

On July 20, 1921, Mercedes Pardo, a Venezuelan painter who stood out for her abstract and colorful art, was born in La Pastora, parish of Caracas.

From the age of seven, he began to capture the landscapes of the Antímano parish on paper. In 1933, the Academy of Fine Arts attended free workshops given by the painter Antonio Edmundo Monsanto, but he formally joined the institution before he was 20 years old.

In 1945, Pardo continued his studies in Chile, and during that year he presented his first solo exhibition at the Sala del Pacifico in Santiago, capital of the South American country.

Four years later he traveled to Paris, to study at the Louvre School with a grant granted by the Ministry of Education, and in the French capital he met the Russian painter Vasili Vasilievich Kandinsky, a forerunner of lyrical abstraction and expressionism.

In 1951 she married fellow artist Alejandro Otero, with whom she has four children.

In 1978, he won the National Prize for Plastic Arts and the 1991 Armando Reverón Prize, and his work has been exhibited in important museums around the world.

During the 2004 Ibero-American Art Fair, Pardo defined herself as “The Colourist” in a tribute that included the publication of a book that includes part of her work, under the title The Private Utopia of Mercedes Pardo.

He died on March 24, 2005, leaving a legacy of colorful works with their own language that are inspiring today.

Mazo News Team