ANTONIO PESSOA ~~ influences

- from Hieronymus Bosch .... to Andy Warhol -

Pensive,might one become when trying to figure out who indeed were the inspiring masters that managed succeeding to leave their stamps into Antonio Pessoa's art work.That could indeed be a grand mystery considering Antonio Pessoa never actually talks about this particular issue,not even revealing a single tiny clue about who were the ones who in fact helped him waddling to the mixed formulas wich became year after year an omnipresence in the whole lot of his striking creations.
Yet again,I would dare to say only a blind couldn't detect here and there or everywhere - for all that matters - unmistakable references leading us directly to names such as Jackson Pollock,Miró,Wassily Kandinsky,Salvador Dali,Marc Chagall,Pablo Picasso,Vieira da Silva,Francis Bacon,Andy Warhol,Leonardo DaVinci,Hieronymus Bosch,and so on and on.
So therefore,on the whole,the process of actually becoming - if not an expert - at least provided with a reasonable perception of who indeed among all of them masters,more or less has in fact influenced,motivated and inspired Antonio Pessoa,the artist,for the past fifteen years,might turn out to be a fullfilling experience.
Unfolding this amazing,although puzzling mystery it is not quite such a big challenge as one might fear at first.Precisely the kees to the answers are printed all over Antonio Pessoa's canvases.One might as well gain a brand-new outlook of the artist's sources of illumination,till reaching the point of helplessly facing a miscellaneous selection of influences wich throughout the years have indeed been feeding Antonio Pessoa's encyclopedic knowledge,multifarious interests,Antonio Pessoa's polymorphic power of invention.


Jacob Kotsky