Mercedes Pardo
Venezuelan painter (1921-2005)
Mercedes Clementina Marta del Carmen Pardo Ponte, known as Mercedes Pardo (July 29, 1921 – March 24, 2005) was a Venezuelan abstract art painter.
Biography
Pardo was born July 29, 1921 (or July 20, 1921, according to her obituary in El País) in Caracas, Venezuela. By age 13 she began taking free classes at the Academia de Bellas Artes.
In 1941 she joined the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Aplicadas in Caracas. She was active in painting, printmaking, and collage, and in 1991 the National Art Gallery in Caracas held an exhibition to review her work from 1941 to 1991.
In 1945 she married Marco Bonta, a professor of stained glass and mural painting. Their marriage was short.
In 1947 she attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Santiago in Chile where she had her first one-woman show. In 1949 she moved to Paris and attended the École du Louvre.
In 1951 she married the painter Alejandro Otero.
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