'FOOTLOOSE. Artist combines painting, dancing, music at Downtown Hollywood ArtWalk' By Melvin Félix | Staff writer
With a brush or pencil in hand,
Daniel Pontet has been painting and drawing since age 4. Now, at 56, he gets
his kicks out of making art with his feet. Pontet, who lives in Hallandale
Beach with his wife and daughters, has become a fixture at ArtWalk, a free
monthly event in downtown Hollywood where he can be seen painting portraits
with his toes and heels.
On the third Saturday of every
month, Pontet puts away his shoes and glides over a canvas for hours, inspired
by the beat of drums banged by local musicians and spectators who want to join
in. “The work of art is no longer the
painting but the performance itself,” says Pontet, who moved from Montevideo,
Uruguay’s capital, to South Florida in1991. “The canvas is the stage.”
