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<\/a>Debra Usher, fondatrice et r\u00e9dactrice en chef, magazine ARABELLA, Canada et \u00c9tats-Unis<\/p><\/div>\n
Magazine ARABELLA, Winter, 2012\/2013<\/p>\n
The Legacy of an Artistic Revolutionary<\/p>\n
Charles CARSON, mba<\/p>\n
Artist to Collect \/\u00a035 Years of Creation<\/p>\n
A Brilliant Jewel<\/p>\n
written by Debra Usher
To leave his mark in the world, Charles Carson became a painter. Thanks to this choice to pursue his unique talent, the fascination with his work will last long past his lifetime. His art, which is both organic and spiritual, often comes as a revelation once we become more sensitive to his message. To discover\u00a0Charles Carson is to rediscover nature \u2013 and, for most of us, it\u2019s love at first sight.<\/p>\n
The term \u201cCarsonism\u201d reflects Carson\u2019s All consuming devotion to original painting. He is the innovator of a unique pictorial language or style, of which he is the father and founder. His mosaic technique has a complexity of colour and vibrancy, yet does not leave us clues to his secret. He knows where he is going and, as his audience and art lovers, we simply have to follow.<\/p>\n
His brushstrokes on the canvas are akin to the soaring notes found in the best alto sax solos. May\u00a0one dare say David Sanborn and John Coltrane in the same breath as Charles Carson? History will decide that, but in his own time Carson gives a vibrant tip of the hat to the incomparable mystery and uniqueness of life \u2013 all of which are reflected in his canvases.<\/p>\n
From almost the beginning it was understood that Charles Carson would be a success. The perfect coordination of skill, movement, pace and organization and the incredible brightness of his palette remind us of the wonderful paintings from 1950-1960 of Jean-Paul Riopelle. But Carson, by his clarity and transparency, shows us he is different and of equal quality.<\/p>\n
It is an abundance of colour and density that sets him apart. In Carson\u2019s work he presents us with a stunning depth to his palette, as he slips from abstraction to figurative within a single brush stroke.\u00a0He takes us on a trip through a universe of varying dimensions; to discover a world in which living forms are born of his own dreams and reflections \u2013 on Earth, over the sea or via the flight of a bird.<\/p>\n
Charles Carson has embraced his chosen mode of expression with the passion of a master, but he also possesses the nerve of an adventurer and the intellect of a historian. He has devoted himself\u00a0entirely to his art since 1983, participating in numerous exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia and South America.<\/p>\n
Today, Carson has gained recognition at the international level and become known among art historians and consultants for his unique style. He is considered by critics to be one of the great contemporary artists, having learned the pictorial language once spoken by Jean-Paul Riopelle, Jackson Pollock, Sam Francis and Wassily Kandinsky, and he has forged forward \u2013 translating\u00a0and updating this style in wholly original ways these earlier geniuses never even imagined.<\/p>\n
A \u201cNatural\u201d Talent<\/strong><\/p>\nBorn in Montreal in 1957, Carson discovered his calling as he approached his teens. At this time, his artistic heroes included Renaissance greats Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, as well as the modern masters Turner and Matisse, all of whom Carson says \u201cdevoted their lives to the pursuit of excellence and whose art continues to move people generations after their passing. Their genius is a constant source of inspiration.\u201d\u00a0Yet, young Carson found himself frustrated with his own futile attempts at originality. \u201cMy imagination was both my greatest asset and my worst enemy,\u201d he admits. \u201cI had the sense of a higher place beyond \u2013 a unique destiny, other universes to discover. In my mind, I dreamt of a creative life that was not subject to anyone\u2019s authority. Refusing to follow a predetermined path\u2026I was determined not to offer my work for sale until I had achieved my goal of creating a new pictorial language without any direct resemblance to an existing style or technique.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, Carson embarked on a quest to find his vision \u2013 to Europe, Asia, the US and South America, living in a dream world fueled by the sea, forests, wildlife and his lofty personal ideals. \u201cI wanted to live new experiences, artistically as well as culturally,\u201d he recalls. These many journeys gave rise to years of disciplined research to develop the pictorial language with which Carson is now identified.<\/p>\n
\u201cI continued to perfect my technique for juxtaposing colours, using acrylics to create vivid abstract forms,\u201d he explains. \u201cI spared no experimentation with special effects. I would drop bags of paint from the roof of the house and rush to see the splatters they created on the sidewalk! Or, I would use a drill to spin a panel I had coated with different colours of acrylic paint. Not to mention the balloons filled with paint that I would burst over canvases! I even used an old bicycle wheel to spread colours on a canvas to see the effect it produced.\u201d<\/p>\n
After residing in South America for 10 years, he also stumbled upon the true inspiration for his groundbreaking art: the environment. Carson is strong, but somewhere in Colombia he found that even the strongest river cannot flow uphill. He became infatuated with the world\u2019s fragile beauty and grew indignant in the face of man\u2019s lack of conscience. It did not take him long to find out the world was upside down and when he discovered this, he sought to make it right.<\/p>\n
In Carson\u2019s view, art should capture the beauty of the environment and simultaneously instill a desire in others to preserve that beauty. \u201cI am very sensitive to ecological and environmental issues, so nature is the source of my inspiration and I strive to represent it in different forms transformed by the mind\u2019s eye. My paintings are vehicles for communication, communion; living works.\u201d His art, being widely collected, attests to its appeal. His auction records at esteemed houses affirm this.<\/p>\n
In Search of a Personal Style<\/strong><\/p>\nFinding his passion for painting in 1970, Charles Carson began to work within traditional motifs, gaining inspiration from his surroundings. These first paintings were figurative. However, in the end, he found they were inhibited and unsatisfactory for embodying his artistic needs. On the journey to develop a more individually suited approach, abstract and figurative gestures were combined. This technique, along with his unique depiction of pictorial image as written universal glyph, distanced Carson from other stylistically-familiar motifs.<\/p>\n
At thirty-three, he travelled to Latin America where the spirit of inspiration gleaned from the South American landscape led him to a new personal era of expression. He made a name for himself in Colombia, where he held numerous exhibitions and developed an amicable relationship with the great Colombian painter, Fernando Botero. While many native artists left for Europe and America in search of fame and fortune, Carson found international recognition emanated from his stay in South America. The influence that painters, topography and people of Colombia exerted upon the young artist, and the vibrant and ancient culture he absorbed, informs much of his work today.<\/p>\n
It would seem that Kandinsky\u2019s words from his immortal little book, The Spiritual in Art, published in 1910 (\u201cThe boldness of colour in a painting must attract the spectator forcefully, and at the same time mask the deeper content.\u201d) left a lasting impression on the young artist. The impact of Carson\u2019s colours grew in the tropical vistas, far away from the winter of his youth \u2013 those frigid nights where shapes haunted his compositions, giving them a certain dimensional presence. In those cold days, he\u00a0learned to focus on the hidden dynamic that so energizes his work. He paints movement with a technique and energy appropriated from masterful predecessors like Mondrian, Jackson\u00a0Pollock or van Gogh. Those legendary figures accomplished extraordinary feats, but none worked in a manner so unique that his style could only be identified by his name. Carson, on the other hand, has \u201cCarsonism.\u201d<\/p>\n
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PUBLICATION:\u00a0http:\/\/issuu.com\/carsonisme\/docs\/magazine_arabella_inglewood_fine_art_-_charles_car<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n.<\/span><\/p>\n.<\/span><\/p>\n.<\/span><\/p>\n.<\/span><\/p>\nAttention aux imitations, St\u00e9phanie Rivet \u2013 \u00c9ric Dupont \u2013 Patrick P\u00e9pin – Galerie d\u2019art Beauchamp \u2013 Le Luxart \u2013 Bel Art Gallery \u2013 Galerry Rufus \u2013 Galerie d\u2019art Emeraude \u2013 Beauchamp Art Gallery \u2013 Galerie Courtemanche \u2013 Latitude Art Gallery \u2013 Whistler Village Art Stephanie Rivet \u2013 Eric Dupont \u2013 Gallery \u2013 Les Galeries d\u2019art Beauchamp \u2013 Hazelton Fine Art Galleries \u2013 Galerie d\u2019art Ambiance – Chantal Malet – Galerie d’art C\u00e9leste.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARABELLA magazine, Canada, USA, \u00e9dition, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\nUn Jewel Brilliant<\/p>\n
Debra Usher<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00ab\u2026Il est tout simplement impossible d\u2019ignorer un artiste qui a d\u00e9couvert de nouvelles valeurs de l\u2019art, mani\u00e8re qui remet en cause toutes les tendances, des genres ou styles qui dominent le march\u00e9 de l\u2019art traditionnelle contemporain d\u2019aujourd\u2019hui. Charles Carson \u00e0 la capacit\u00e9 d\u2019imaginer, interpr\u00e9ter et transposer sa vision unique du monde autour de lui avec force et subtilit\u00e9.<\/em><\/p>\n\u00ab Il est consid\u00e9r\u00e9 par la critique comme l\u2019un des plus grands artistes contemporains de ce si\u00e8cle, Ma\u00eetre Carson ayant saisie le langage picturale parl\u00e9 autrefois par Mondrian, Riopelle, Jackson Pollock, Sam Francis et Wassily Kandinsky, l\u2019artiste a su prendre les devants \u2013 Car la cr\u00e9ation et la mise \u00e0 jour de son mouvement tout \u00e0 fait unique et original, interpr\u00e9t\u00e9 d\u2019une tel fa\u00e7on th\u00e9\u00e2tral et magistral, qu\u2019aucun de ces grands ma\u00eetre ou g\u00e9nies de l\u2019art des temps pass\u00e9, n\u2019avais su imagin\u00e9 ou m\u00eame pens\u00e9 jusqu\u2019\u00e0 pr\u00e9sent. \u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n\n
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Attention aux imitations ! \u00a0auteurs de pastiche\u2026.<\/em>\u00a0 St\u00e9phanie Rivet \u2013 \u00c9ric Dupont \u2013 Patrick P\u00e9pin, ect \u2026 \u00abUn v\u00e9ritable mouvement, une tendance se cr\u00e9ent actuellement autour de ma\u00eetre Charles Carson. Naturellement\u00a0plusieurs peintres \u00abfans\u00bb de CARSON tentent d\u2019imiter ses \u0153uvres\u2026\u00bb\u00a0Attention aux imitations !\u00a0<\/em>auteurs de pastiche\u2026.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Stephanie Rivet \u2013 Eric Dupont \u2013 Patrick Pepin, \u00a0ect \u2026<\/em><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nVoir article complet…<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-livres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlescarson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlescarson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlescarson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlescarson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlescarson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3360"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/charlescarson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7321,"href":"https:\/\/charlescarson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions\/7321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlescarson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlescarson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlescarson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlescarson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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