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CHARLES CARSON
Lives and works in Laurentides, quebec, Canada
SEARCH THE ARTIST ONLINE www.carsonisme.com I www.charlescarson.com
Charles Carson concentrates on the essentials of structure, the purity It’s more because he is so unclassifiable to begin with, so unique is his
of forms, the transparency and vividness of colors. He paints with form of writing. (He) gives each painting an extraordinary depth that is
complete assurance and focuses on different studies involving color and much more fascinating than the most masterful system of perspective.
aesthetics. The work Charles Carson is doing can be clearly distinguished The impression of freshness and energy we find in Carson’s paintings
from that of a Riopelle as it takes us to the border lying between the comes in part from the brightness and purity of the colours, harmonised
abstract and the figurative (…). In so doing we are able to avoid the old in a rhythmic and airy juxtaposition by patches of white. The placement
quarrel that has so often arisen between them; indeed it might be said of broad strokes (…) seems to be raised up by some mysterious breath,
that, with Carson, reconciliation takes place. Carson, slicing like a blade discreet yet efficacious, animating the whole composition.
to the core of the matter, launches himself onto each blank canvas via guy Robert, founder, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Montreal
the rapid and nervous dance of his hand, using layered touches nearly
always on the diagonal or in wide ellipses. I have been maintaining since 1992 that Charles Carson has developed
From this way of doing things, à la Carson, “comes an impression of such a truly novel way of interpreting Nature and its creatures in a style that
freshness, such dynamism, and what rhythm (…)!” that a new –ism, is conforms to the principles of aesthetics in terms of the subjects of his
of necessity required by art experts. Hence Carsonism! compositions and his chromatic resonance.
It’s not that Carson is trying to impose a new pictorial language on anyone! Louis Bruens, art historian, editor and critic
aU JarDIN De mON COeUr, OIL ON CANvAS (CARSONISM TECHNIqUE) 60x40 IN. / 152x102 CM.
reFLet D’aUtOmNe aU rUIsseLLemeNt COLOrÉ, ACRYLICS ON CANvAS (MOSAIC TECHNIqUE) 40x30 IN. / 102x76 CM.
HaVre De PaIx HaUt eN COULeUrs, OIL ON CANvAS (CARSONISM TECHNIqUE) 60x40 IN / 152x102 CM.
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