| It is important, at
the time of judging the work of this artist, to investigate
what has
been his career. Moncholc was self taught and he began to paint
in the
year 1971. In his first works, t he excess use of color in his red
clouds
and turbulent brushstrokes dominated his works. One would say that the material
was considered as a subject capable of dominating his emotional immoderation.
In the works of art of the time, there was scarcely a compositive order and women's
faces and bodies appeared scarcely
a compositive order and women's faces and bodies
appeared over seas of material, as an evocation of a
nightmare . A highly positive evolution existed
between those paintings and what we are
presenting today. In his current landscapes. The heavens are furious. One could say that they even issue sounds as if silent battles are being fought in space. To the contrary, at floor level, a peaceful life is shown to us, which developed in a rural atmosphere: bare fields which Moncholc covers with tepid and warm colors, shores which grow green beside the waters, and always the human figure: farmers in the furrows, lovers beside a tree. The elderly on the road to a deserted sanctuary... Moncholc was born in Granada and his exhuberant land, the trustee of a great tradition of magic and sensuality. He has lived in the lands of Extremadura for two years. This has contributed, without a doubt, to tempering the passion of his colors and has made his brushstrokes less vertiginous. The landscapes which we contemplate are the exponents of á firm order of compositive space. The painter established in many of his works an ascending scale of horizontal ideas so that they appear in perspective with the lands and the rural habitat. Here, the brushstrokes are repeated frequently and they splash into the material, girding themselves around a reality enveloped in poetry. In the horizontal line and the opening up to the space, the abrupt brushstroke, the intense color and the violent absorption in a secretly worked material jumps out at us again, with a terse brilliant and consistent texture. At the present time, an Expressionism of a Surrealistic nature coexists in his paintigs, on one hand, and a poetic and even naive realism, on the other, the two currents reach a pact of equilibrium from which one can expect, given the seriouness with which Moncholc faces his vocation as a painter, an ascending evolution as he has been evidencing up until now. In this same exhibition which we mentioned, a series of small formats are offered, that is, miniatures. Here, the brushstroke adds the precise touch to trace the filigree of a landscape which represents a colorful party. This is good exercise for specifying and controlling impulses which are born from a complex and emotional subconscious , inclined to fly through free spaces and disturbing mobylity. Rosa Martínez de Lahidalga
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