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NEW Exhibition Art - May 2006
About
the Artist…Victoria
Montesinos 
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Victoria
Montesinos was born in Mexico City, the daughter of a well-known
Mexican movie director, Fernando A. Rivero, and Maty Humana.
Sent to live with her grandparents around the age of two,
it was not long after that time that she started drawing and
painting in response to the serious temperament of her grandmother.
According
to Vicky, “I became accustomed to enjoying my own
world…Drawing was an escape from my communication
problems. Besides, drawing was highly rewarding to me.”
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When she was just twelve years old, Vicky’s
father noticed her talent and offered her the opportunity
to study painting with a friend of his, the great Spanish
painter, José Bardasano. Having just opened a painting
academy, Bardasano welcomed the young Montesinos to study
under his direction for five years, initially during school
vacations so that she could finish secondary school. This
was the beginning of her brilliant career as an artist.
Vicky has always believed in painting with
total integrity, without submitting herself to the judgment
of the market, style or expectations of others. The topics
she depicts in her paintings are not the product of intellectual
analysis, but arise from tastes and affinities that take
shape gradually in her mind. When her ideas become clearly
defined, Vicky begins to transform the canvas by abolishing
its emptiness and nothingness: she stains the cloth, marks
the lines, and then continues with brushstrokes, guiding
herself intuitively and wisely until reaching the grand
finale. In general, she likes to work on various easels
at the same time.
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Montesinos
works without deliberations, on large canvases that show
ethereal atmospheres overflowing with extravagance and sensuality.
The slender bodies she paints appear enveloped in marked
brushstrokes that serve as both mantles and tunics. The
flowers have silk petals, and invite us to discover their
interiors. With her brush, Vicky knows how to share her
great sensitivity, and for this reason her paintings captivate
collectors and lovers of great art from around the world.
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