Art at Tarla

VARTO FINE ART - MAESTRO JOSÉ LUIS VARTO

"Ingenious, creative, spirited, a relentless explorer of new forms of artistic expression. Constantly experimenting with new materials, he creates new art concepts that have led him from realistic art to a unique shape abstraction, which characterizes his work.

Ever from his early years, he was strongly attracted to sketching. Inspired by his father, a painting devotee who provided him with his first drawing tools, and by his mother, from whom he inherited his passion for observation, he developed a steady and sound sketching. Mesmerized by the human body, he soon came to understand its tridimensionality and that of several other objects; growing more sensitive towards color and shape.

His interest in graphic expression encouraged him to practice his skills in journalistic illustration and publicity. This job allowed him to acquire a sense of discipline and creativity.

He then went on to study at the National School of Plastic Arts of the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM), where he polished his technique and became acquainted with several others, such as photography and engraving. He created many artworks and participated in several exhibitions.

Nowadays, keeping up to date with technological advances and, in compliance with his innovative drive, he has adopted digital media as means of artistic expression. He has even taken up CGI, thus satisfying his ambition of “keeping in touch” with his time ad those to come.

He enjoys crafting surreal or realistic pieces, manipulating colors and artistically distributing them on any surface, creating easily recognizable shapes or abstract figures in unimaginable, dreamlike settings with one-of-a-kind characteristics that set them apart from traditional and old-school painting. He relies upon his enormous imagination to innovate and produce 'state-of-the-art' pieces."