Look, I like Mateo as a person—he seems like a genuinely nice guy—but this new piece is a complete disaster. It’s the kind of amateurish, chaotic mess that makes me genuinely sad he didn’t just go to architecture school instead. The composition is nonexistent: that big white streak looks like it was slapped on with a broom, and the clashing colors feel like someone threw up a rainbow and then tried to smear it around with their elbows. The brushwork is sloppy, the blending is muddy, and the whole thing screams “first-year art student who skipped all the fundamentals.”
It’s loud, garish, and visually exhausting in the worst way. There’s no harmony, no depth, no real emotion—just random, ugly energy pretending to be “expressive.” This isn’t bold or daring; it’s just bad. It looks like it belongs in a cheap hotel lobby or a garage sale, not on anyone’s wall.
Mateo, brother, if you’re reading this: I say this because I care—you’ve got passion, but technique and taste are clearly not there yet. Put the brushes down for a while, pick up some architecture books, and maybe one day you’ll design beautiful buildings instead of torturing canvases like this. Harsh? Yes. But someone had to say it. This painting is straight-up terrible.
Rain Bordo 