IMPULSE ART by PONTET
‘Impulse Art’ is a live performance where the rhythm of music inspires artist Daniel Pontet to paint with his feet and hands. It is the type of event that grew out of the Action Painting circles, a movement born in the decade of the 1950s that revolutionized the concept of art. Painters no longer approached their canvas with a set image in mind; it is an interaction between the artist and whatever the material may be before the individual's hands or feet. From this encounter derives an image, a sort of residue -the finished painting- and the canvas becomes just a witness of this moment. In this new redefinition, art is seen as an act rather than a product or an object.
Monday, November 25, 2013
Thursday, November 14, 2013
IMPULSE ART by pontet | Hollywood ArtWalk | (Video)
©2013. Impulse Art by Pontet. Video production by Ashok Communications. Images from a Daniel Pontet's live performance at Downtown Hollywood Artwalk organized by Florida's Hollywood CRA, and sponsored by Resurrection Drums. Drumming guided by Jeff Lee, Evan Klene, and Adrian Jones. All right reserved. Miami, FL 2013.
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Press (Sun Sentinel): IMPULSE ART @ HOLLYWOOD ARTWALK
'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.”
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