7 Brazilian painters you need to know
Painting is one of the artistic languages most consecrated in the history of Western art and there are many notable Brazilian painters.
This manifestation has been present in humanity since pre-history, as cave paintings, and, as well as Sculpture, it was used a lot by artists to express their views of the world and portray the societies we were in. inserted.
From the advent of photography and the emergence of contemporary art, other languages emerge and ganharam espaço. Meanwhile, painting never ceased to be a powerful and present manifestation, not an artistic scene.
We selected 7 Brazilian artists who develop their work in painting and deserve to be highlighted.
1. Cândido Portinari (1903-1962)
When famous Brazilian painters are found, perhaps or first to be sown is Cândido Portinari. This is because his work constituted an authentic and singular portrait of the XX century Brazilian povo.
Portinari was born in 1903 in the interior of São Paulo, in a coffee plantation in the small municipality of Brodowski.
Coming from an Italian family, he manifested an interest in the arts since he started and built a solid career as a painter, producing intensely life.
Among the recurring themes in his paintings, he is denouncing social problems, or rural worker, valuing childhood and popular celebrations.
Na work Café, from 1935, we can observe a robust treatment that Portinari gives to the figures of workers da roça. Portrayed in a sculptural manner, his heavy feet and me symbolize força do trabalho braçal.
2. Anita Malfatti (1889-1964)
Anita Malfatti is a Brazilian painter from the XX century who has a very important role for the consolidation of the modernist movement in the country.
Born in 1889 in São Paulo, Anita had first contact with painting through her mother, Bety Malfatti. Later she will study in Germany between 1910 and 1914, a period of cultural effervescence in Europe, where her talent developed.
This production of it highlights not the background of Brazilian painting, choco or public and critics when in 1917 the artist had an exhibition displaying fabrics inspired by avant-garde European modernists.
Uma das fabrics that she esteve nessa exposição foi A woman with green hair, 1915. It is not evident from reference to the work of Paul Cézzane, a French post-impressionist artist, due to the simplification of forms.
The artist also participated in the Modern Art Week, in 1922, an event that would become a Brazilian cultural framework.
3. Georgina de Albuquerque (1885-1962)
Georgina de Albuquerque was born in 1885 and was the first woman to establish herself as an artist in Brazilian and foreign territory.
Apart from being a painter, Georgina was an unhappy teacher and a teacher, playing an important role in Brazilian historical painting.
Part of its formation was in Europe, or that justifies its great influence on the impressionist movement.
Her canvases trace varied themes, but it is common to the presence of women, portrayed, in any case, by another woman, or who confer a feminine role in her works.
Um desses work, and maybe it is more known to the painter, Session of the State Council, which Maria Leopoldina drew as a prominent figure in a meeting that preceded or historical event of the Independence of Brazil.
4. Arthur Timótheo da Costa (1882-1922)
I come from a humble family in Rio de Janeiro, Arthur Timótheo da Costa follows the passages of his greatest strength João Timótheo da Costa and becomes an artist, highlighting Brazilian painting.
He studied at Casa da Moeda do Rio de Janeiro and developed a set of paintings in that texture, as colors and as lights were very well worked, as can be seen in the fabric Or menino (1917). His themes vary between landscapes and portraits.
Her works can be seen at the moment in the Museu Afro Brasil, Pinacoteca e MASP, in São Paulo.
5. Mary Help of Christians (1935-1974)
Colorful fabrics, cheias of people and details. Assim é o work of the black and minera artist Maria Auxiliadora.
A painter born in Minas Gerais in 1938 and a little moved to São Paulo. Coming from a family of artists, Maria Auxiliadora has not finished her studies and working in various endeavors, since at the age of 32 she assumed herself as an artist.
Maria did not have academic training in the arts, being self-taught and developing a work that fits as naive art. A particularity of her works is also the insertion of self-changing fabrics, as well as fabrics and embroidery.
The themes that she addresses passeiam pela religiosidade, popular culture and daily dinners, showing a festive atmosphere, as in the case of cloth Bar with gafieira, 1973.
In the sixties, the artist became part of the Afro-Brazilian artistic group of Solano Trindade, which com a valorization of black culture, showing dinners and Afro-descendant people for two stereotypes raciais.
6. Siron Franco (1947-)
Gessiron Alves Franco, born in 1950, in Goiás and more known as Siron Franco, was a powerful work in Brazilian painting, além de também will manifest itself artistically in other languages, such as engraving, sculpture and installation.
She ganhou projeção ao participate in the 12th São Paulo Art Biennial in 1974 and ganhou or prize of melhor national painter nesse ano.
The artist tries to show his works with concern as social questions, or that it is evident that he does not work. Cesium, in which he painted a radiological accident with Césio 137 substance, occurred due to hospital negligence in Goiânia in 1987 and that caused several people of a poor bairro.
Siron was a resident of the region who was 21 years old and painted in a whole series of his indignation and sadness using dark and contrasting cores, showing hollow figures and various elements symbolic.
7. Iberê Camargo (1914-1994)
Iberê Camargo, born in 1914 in Rio Grande do Sul, is not known to me as a national artistic center.
With compositions that display a lot of vigor and energy, this work can be classified as painting abstract-expressionist, pois in some fabrics mix non-figurative elements with emotional force do expressionism.
Marking death in the life of Iberê Camargo was the assassination that was committed in 1980, and from which he was acquitted. Let me say that the episode was responsible for a change in the style of the artist, that it began to incorporate more figurative elements.
To work I do not sell on terra I It was made an apos or crime and shows a melancholic, morbid and sad dinner to portray a human figure deited on a dark earth.
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