EVARISTO Camargo-Rodas - Cultural and Critical journalist of Art - Barranquilla
A ELVIRA PERDOMO DE RESTREPO the art reserved him its own space so that some day was one of its cultores.
Their vital existence is full with key moments in which has been favored magically by an or another artistic manifestation that were him inculcating, cultivating, waking up and illuminating him in its internal jurisdiction the liking, the hobby, the interest, the love and the conviction that she was one of the privileged ones with the favor of the muses.
They were as invaluables revelations that were her predisposing and rooting with determination in the spiritual spheres of the art. Him his, in ELVIRA PERDOMO DE RESTREPO, is definitively the artistic expression that she conceives and carries out undergoing itself to demanding and rigorous cánones that drive her for the difficult paths of the quality and the excellence.
From early age it was fascinated to explore, to know and to figure out the mysteries and marvels that contain the handling of the marked word.
The resonances that can be possible when saying the sentences in certain way, the turns, the suggestions, the evocation of emotions as they are said in an or another form the sentences they captured her being channeled their interest by their teacher Carmen Cajeli of Domínguez who guided it toward the art of the Declamation when he studied in the School Barranquilla for Young ladies.
It had the privilege to appreciate in scene to the godlike BERTHA SINGERMAN when Columbus of our city acted in the Theater. To see how the declamation was a delight and recreation of the gods in the performance of the Singerman he ended up deciding it to want to emulate her. The impact was such that of its precocious adolescent age one of the poetries remembers even nowadays declaimed in that memorable occasion: "The Reasons of the Wolf."
The art declamatorio, in this time only given to select circles and almost that of initiate he survives with her as a distinguished exponent demonstrated in their vibrant, moving and masterful recital offered in the Homage to Teacher it exempted it NEVA LALLEMAND when he allowed to delight to the I publish that it appreciated it delighted in the Theater Mario Cevallos Araujo with to the poetry "TO Alone" of Ismael Enrique Arciniegas that she dedicated their guide and mentor NEVA LALLEMAND..
Their inspired soul is moved and he wakes up with JOSÉ'S ASSUMPTION poetic verses SILVA, RUBÉN DARIO, ISMAEL ENRIQUE ARCINIEGAS, ALFONSINA STORNI, ROSARY SANSORES, JUAN B. ESPADARO, GUSTAVO ADOLFO BÉCQUER. The images that these wates made it dream wanted to conserve them but there of the dream. The imperious reason arose this way to paint. If for the declamation he met with the Singerman, for the painting the destination afforded the famous teacher NEVA LALLEMAND.
In their shop it assimilated their illustrious teacher's masterful teachings brilliantly. It was purified and refined artist that is already expressed with admirable virtuosity with the pencil, the charcoal, the watery plumilla, watercolor, cake and the oil. Wanting to go but far, and chord to its spirit perfectionist, intended to forge its own artistic accent for that which has wanted, and order, it is granted him the pictorial interlocución with the big teachers.
The copismo, then, it has been the bridge to communicate with the lessons of the big teachers and to assimilate them. We have seen it offer elaboradísimas and sensitive pieces copyists with great professionalism of teachers like Rubens, Murillo, Velásquez, Fragonaird, Gives Vinci, Boucher, Renoir, Goya, Vermeer... Of the poetic images, to the images of the teachers to his own images is an unavoidable process that drives directly to that Elvira's artistic spirit Perodomo of Restrepo sprouts with its own creations.
The long, arduous and beautiful formative journey joined to its sensibility, firmness and refinement allows avizorar and to assure that she is a name to keep in mind for its own plastic identity in artistic environment of the city, the region and the country. Before so much facilismo and cheap improvisations that swarm nowadays in the artistic world, the rigurosidad, professionalism, desires endless to investigate, to learn and to dominate the secrets of the teachers that adorn Elvira Perdomo of Restrepo transforms it into a worthy example to continue for the disoriented generations that lean out to the art.
The reward that the Association International Day of the Woman it confers him as Excellent Woman it is an I stimulate and recognition to their artistic eloquent gifts as well as to their ready social spirit to support diverse actions to help to aid and to redeem to the abandoned ones. Philanthropic initiatives as the Pediatric Voluntariado, Rosy Ladies of the Infantile Hospitalito, Sewing case of Charity Great Lodge of the North, among other, they have counted and they have their altruistic gift.
Distinguished Egresada of the School Barranquilla for Young ladies has continued attentive to the destination of the facility that rewarded it in the years 1998 and 2003.
All are conquests that have enriched it as person. But its but important achievement is its family. He found in their husband, the grateful and respectable manager Don LUIS ENRIQUE RESTREPO, to the partner, to the friend, to the confidant that has known how to understand it, to love and to support in their projects and dreams. To be and to unite with Don Luis Enrique Restrepo one of those magic moments that has afforded him the life was.
Together they have forged and erected an exemplary family of four professionals to the service of the society: ELVIRA RESTREPO PERDOMO, Industrial Ingeniera; JANETH RESTREPO PERDOMO, Lawyer - Economist-fiscal; LIBYA RESTREPO PERDOMO, Odontóloga and LUIS RESTREPO PERDOMO, Medical Anesthesiologist.
