Carlos Enrique Polanco

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Carlos Enrique Polanco is a Peruvian pop impressionist painter. Since his beginnings he was attracted to the less privileged urban sectors of Lima City. When he studied in School of Fine Arts, his work reflecs the iconography and color of the peruvian urban night life. Polanco is an artist with a social commitment.

Polanco gainned a scholarship to study in China, where he remained a considerable time. Then, he went to Peru with a new shrill and shining, but tender painting style.

Polanco is a cronist of contemporary latin american society, portraying survivors of the urban fight, becoming the winners of the social battle.

In Peruvian art expresionismo indigenista history, Polanco is continuing the path of painters like Julia Codesido, Sérvulo Gutiérrez, Víctor Humareda and David Herskovitz.