Maria Jose Fort, Uruguay

During college Maria José Fort discovered her vocation as an artist. Starting from an intuitive process, the main objective of this Uruguayan artist is to create agile works of art, in which the process plays a determinant part. The action creates a different variety of rhythms, sometimes event violent ones. The spontaneity and fluidity in her work make the artist manipulation of color and line important. Both elements become a language that helps translate the images from Fort’s imagination into canvas. The language is used as a dialect, which narrates independent truths and shows worlds in which the free association of the spectator plays a decisive manner by idealizing and constructing an atmosphere full of fantasy. The harmony of the colors is driven by a sense of estheticism however application of the colors on the canvas is often instinctive. The strength of Fort’s artwork lies in its color, its large strokes and its powerful expression. Painting is for her a way of expressing her feelings as well as a propulsion of her energy.