Year of creation | 2021 |
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Dimensions | 36 W × 86 H × 0.5 D cm |
Type of art | painting |
Style | figurative |
Genre | still-life |
Materials | oil, cardboard |
Painting not framed, shipped on a hard cardboard surface to prevent bending, weight of the packed artwork approximately 0.7 Kg.
Victorino Mercado developed an interest in the plastic arts at an early age, influenced in part by the wood carved toys that his father made for him and his siblings. In 2012, he entered the Superior Institute for Plastic Arts Raul G. Prada in Cochabamba, where he developed a keen interest in watercolor. Victorino Mercado has developed through watercolor his unique pictorial language, not only employing watercolor as a technique, but using the effects unique to watercolor as a source of inspiration. In his works, he manages to exploit the fluidity of watercolor to create aethereal, sometimes ghostly atmospheres, while exploring a diversity of themes that evoke other times: vintage objects, abandoned Andean villages or interiors filled with vintage décor.