“With thematic intention in the search for new forms of expression a coherent process is discerned in this work. From Neo-Figurativism, in which the artist’s mastery of space stands out, to the disintegration of the image with the purest of Constructivist conceptions through the sense of order and perfection.”

“José Pereira’s works fascinate us by the richness of colors and impress us by their expressive strength.
The composition and the combination of colors and formal elements are as well poetical as plastic, creating a vibrating tension.
In strictly pictorial fields we discover blended forms; labyrinths that lend wings to the fantasy of the observer.”

"As KANDINSKY in his time, José PEREIRA compares painting with music and literature, these three arts being subjected to strict rules and some conventions.
The artistic act has for origin the variety of relationships between the plastic components, giving them a new meaning.
José PEREIRA’s language transposes elements of color and forms known since DELAUNAY and MIRO.
The geometrical forms submerged in meaningful colors, describe their most intimate sentiments and their relations with the world.
The observer can read and even interpret, in a total opposite way the abstract and surrealist vision of the Artist.
The fact of giving up, in a deliverate way to entitle his works let the spectator enter without prejudice into his inner world..."

"... In the middle of José Pereira’s observations, is the man in his relation with the environment, loaded with tensions and in which he moves and merges.
In certain paintings the Universe of forms merges with its environment and is transformed, being allowed to be absorbed in certain cases, or even falling into pieces, seemingly without weight, in an iridescent plurality, getting loose from the simplicity of the bottom.
Men and women are reduced to the strict essentials of their characteristics, some time depersonalized behind their face; carrying masks, but communicating among them in continual forms and constant movement, by dancing, embracing or separating..."

"...The works give a supplementary dynamics by becoming integrated into another dimension: the Time.
From a plurality of perspectives is born the illusion of time, successions of movements of forms which approach or go away giving us the idea of evolution in the space and the time.
What is offered to the eyes of the spectators is not at all a muddled puzzle, but indeed a thoughtful concept based on a system of complex and artistic symbols."

“A great admirer of Joaquin Torres Garcia, who introduced modern art into Uruguayan cultural life, José Pereira is closer to Klee and especially to Kandinsky's Parisian period.
At the same time, he was preoccupied with cosmic concerns and reflected on the laws of genetics, and even on the birth of mankind.
Thanks to such an encounter, his painting expands, airy, joyful and almost dance-like, and the result is the most stimulating I've ever seen.”

“Possessor of an inexhaustible imagination, his work seems that of a magical painter.
His powerful suggestion evokes the calligraphic language of a Klee, and each of his canvases exhibits the beauty of a great cosmic night.”

“In the painter's profession, where - as Braque said - the first 70 years are the hardest, José Pereira is like a youngster who is nonetheless slowly rising to international stardom.
Sign painting? You evoke Klee rightly or wrongly? Klee's painting is also “magical”.
And this is unquestionably true of José Pereira's work, where every form has its own “charge”, and every symbol is in a state of activation.”