Urban Cityscapes
Oils, acrylics, on canvas,table or carton. Mixed media.
dated 2005 until 2010
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Lost in the nets of sadness
2010
Woman seated in a bank of the street using mini laptop, missing her love. Lost in the nets of sadness"/ "Perdida nas redes da Saudade". Saudade in Portuguese means a deep sadness, nostalgia, melancholy, worn on the heart. In the picture a woman from Portugal today, -trapped in nostalgia- communicates with her phone via the Internet, with its love of thousands of kilometers.Internet networks are also networks of nostalgia that surround and seem to spread through the streets and sidewalks of his hometown in Portugal. Oil on table 31 ½ x 24 inches 80x61 cms Framed on dark wenge wood: Including frame & packaging in price.
Digital Dreams of a young woman from Buenos Aires in Madrid
2008
Young woman from Buenos Aires has her heart divided: the loved town where she was born and the old Madrid where a new life and possibilities are possible. In dreams all became to be alive, a mosaic of experiences and aims.
2008 Oil on canvas 36 x 25 3/8 inches /Óleo S/lienzo 92x65cms/ Ensoñaciones digitales de una joven porteña en Madrid
Woman in blue
2010
Woman in blue. 2010. Watercolor & Oil on paper. 12 ½ x 9 3/8 inches
Mujer de Azul
The new teacher
2010The new teacher.2010. Watercolor & Ink ,oil, pastel, chacroal on paper 12 ½ x 9 3/8 inches. SOLD-VENDIDO-VENDUTO
No one in the square
2010
"No one in the square". 2010. Watercolor & Ink on paper 12 ½ x 9 3/8 inches
Carlos Pardo
The visit
2010
"The visit". 2010. Watercolor, pastel & Ink on paper 12 ½ x 9 3/8 inches.
Two friends, reunion
2010"Two friends, reunion". 2010. Watercolor & Ink on paper 12 ½ x 9 3/8 inches Carlos Pardo After years, two friends come back home. A lot experiences to tell each to other.
Campus II:three friends, three destinies
2008
Campus II:three friends, three destinies. Today we are together, tomorrow who knows?. The Life always draws different ways for us. 2008 Oil on canvas 31 ½ x31 ½ inches //“Campus II: tres amigas, tres destinos” Óleo S/lienzo 80x80 cms
Place the figures in the correct place
2008
For a moment try to enter in the mind of painter. You see or imagine the cityscape,the people... but you must situate the figures on the right place. Proposal: All us could take a carpet with the possible images we can imagine and try to sketch and learn to watch as the painter seated on painting.
Oil on canvas 35 3/8 x 27 3/8 inches/ Óleo S/lienzo 90x70x5 cms
When we reach the future
2007
The Astonished Past comes to attend the Present. I had a dream or was a regression to a previous life. From Dirigibles Era, only for a second we could see the Future where the peace and clean environment was possible. When we reach the future” Oil on canvas 36 x 25 3/8 inches “Cuando alcancemos el futuro” Óleo S/ lienzo 92x65 cms 0386 El Pasado Acude Atónito A Presenciar el Presente.
Property speculation
2007The hungry real state companies eat the city as fast as they can. they put their hand on the old streets and erase them forever. Justice offers her back after lose her bandage on her eyes, her arms and the judgment balance. Property speculation is sort of terrible sport that changes the face of the Cities in Spain and in the world. Object of desire the threatened City of other times wait her end. Somebody can rescue the City? Property speculation Oil on canvas 46 ¾ x 39 inches 2006-2007 1500€ SOLD
Projecting the New Station
2006
Projecting the New Station After terrorist attacks on Chamartin and other railway stations in Madrid on March 11th 2004, Spain and the world need to stand up and to continue projecting the future as new Railway Stations. The idea is to keep on walking, generating ideas and building the future together,the enemy will not win because we continue thinking. Freedom for creating new spaces for next generations.
2006 Oil on canvas 100x100 cms 39x39 inches Proyectando la Nueva Estación
The little bullfighter of the Spanish Quarter
2005Growth is subject to the game of life and love and death. Like a game learned everywhere, even in the streets at puberty begins to build men and women always taught us. 2005 Acrl. & Oil on carton-canvas 25 ½ x 19 5/8 inches
Piazza in rosso Square in red
2005
In italian places the people meet each to other and enjoy the unique moment of to be alive and see as live is passing, at sunset when the sky is pasionated red.
Piazza in rosso/ Place in red /Plaza en rojoTempera & Oil on canvas 25 ½ x 21 1/4 inches Temple al huevo y óleo S/ lienzo 65x54cms
Calling
2005"Citar" in spanish bull fight jargon, as a verb, means to call the bull to come close the bull fighter. Nowadays in Spain women are taking the initiative. Like in bull fighting Fiesta, as the bull fighter/torero calls the bull after immediately the animal come into the place, the liberate woman takes the initiative in the "fight" of love. The man, surprised as never, take a moment to think about in a refuge and meanwhile he remember the women of the past. The destiny is guided by the arrows of the new "Diane hunter" woman and the songs of the sirens. There is no way out. As ever the only solution is to go out and fight. Carlos Pardo "Calling" 2004-05 Tempera & Oil on canvas 57 7/8x 38 1/8 inches