Romero Britto: works and biography
Romero Britto (1963) is currently the most successful painter from Brazil. Made hair his unique style, his works of him já ganharam o mundo e percorreram more than 100 countries.
Fitted with an aesthetic classification as a pop neo-cubist, his illustrations of him are characterized by the use of vibrant colors and joy. Check out now the main works and the artist's biography.
Romero Britto creates portraits, sculptures, serigraphs, paintings and public installations.
It is possible to find his work, for example, not Sheba Medical Center (Tel Aviv, Israel), not Basel Children's Hospital (Suíça), no John F. Kennedy Airport (Nova Iorque) and no International Airport of Miami
There is even in Miami-a city that or artist who has chosen for the nursery a series of peças of his authorship: There are about 18 installations and a huge sculpture that weighs eight tons located at the entrance of Miami Beach.
As well as the American city, it makes little backs in galleries and museums afora world. It is worth underlining that Romero Britto was on show between 2008 and 2010 not conceived in Louvre, in Paris.
There are also some of him in private collections including close friends like Madonna and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Characteristics of the art of Romero Britto
Com uma easy to understand art, or artist is classified as a pop neo-Cubist.
Or the New York Times claims that or Romero Britto's style
"Exalt heat, self and love"
A alegria é, sem dúvida, uma das suas maiores marks, which was translated through asymmetric shapes, vibrant patterns, otimism and lightness.
With our own style, as beautifully fortes we mark outlines and shelter shocking cores.
It is important to underline that Romero Britto used to consistently geometric figures nas suas produções.
Main works of Romero Britto
Art for além dos quadros
Three works for além two quadros stand out in the breeder's career.
No Hyde Park, in 2007, Romero Britto installed a pyramid 13 meters high in reference to the inauguration of the exhibition Tutancâmon e a era de ouro dos faraós. This was the greatest installation of art from the history of the park.
Em 2008 o artist fez selos postais chamados Sports for peace, a commission from the UN regarding the Pequim Olympics.
In 2009 Romero Britto established a partnership with Cirque du Soleil to attend the opening of the Super Bowl.
The artist also has a series of portraits for celebrities like Dilma Rousseff, Bill Clinton and Obama and Michelle home.
Artists who influenced Romero Britto
The Brazilian breeder has publicly affirmed that he has a series of idols in the world of arts.
In terms of Brazilian breeders, Britto is a reference Alfredo Volpi and Cláudio Tozzi, two great names of plastic arts in the 60s. The contemporary artist emphasizes that he especially likes colorful dessas produções.
His style also mixes touches of the French painter Toulouse-Lautrec with a lot of art of rua-sua relação with or graffiti começou when Romero was still living in Brazil.
Britto's parts are also clearly influenced by the production of Picasso and Matisse (from where herdou or colorful).
Boa part das suas peças de el carregam also inspiração gerada pela pop art North American (especially working hairs of Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Keith Haring) e gives linguagem das historias em quadrinhos.
Romero Britto Biography
First years in Pernambuco
Born in Recife on October 6, 1963, an artist passed a difficult childhood, quite humble.
Self-taught, he started painting on paper and paper and for a few years working with his cat and graffiti. At the age of 14, he sold his first box to the Organization of the American States.
Moving to the United States
In the capital of Pernambuco, Romero Britto joined the Catholic University of Pernambuco to study Directly, but ended up dropping out of graduation to move to the United States.
O young man, a childhood friend named Leonardo Conte who was studying English in no country and identified himself with the local culture had never visited Miami.
When he came to the United States in 1988, 25 years old, he needed to earn a living by working as a gardener, painting walls in the street, being a clerk of lanchonete and caixa.
Home of the artistic career
Or Romero Britto's first studio was set up in Coconut Grove. Lá, em 1990, or artist foi Descoberto pelo president of the swedish vodka company Absolut I received a treat to make advertising illustrations for the brand.
This work or project for the United States like everything because your illustrations are printed in advertisements from more than 60 American magazines.
Romero Britto will give you more visibility to follow, when he has illustrations for the cans of Pepsi and when he rediscovers the classic characters of Disney.
A consolidação do trabalho
A career that started in Miami, Romero Britto became an international artist. Ainda hoje or pernambucano keep a studio-gallery in Miami called Britto Central with 3,000 square meters.
His work was exhibited in more than 100 countries. An artist assisted in advertising for a series of important brands such as Audi, IBM, Disney, Campari, Coca-Cola, Louis Vuitton and Volvo.
Criticism of art by Romero Britto
Because of his art behind so many places, Romero Britto is used to receiving accusation from critics of producing an art that is too commercial. Or artist, for the time, refutes that saying:
"I want my art to be democratic."
Outra criticism that costs ouvir and that his art does not face a social denouncement nem tries to portray contemporary problems.
Pessoal life
Or artist and married to North American Cheryl Ann Britto since 1988. O casal tem um filho chamado Brendan.
Romero Brito as a social activist
Or an artist who does your work or the same time and your own resources for more than 250 charity organizations.
Among his ações de el com maior visibilidade criou a capa do single What More Can I Give, by Michael Jackson, em 2002. The profits from the project were reversed for families who were victims of the attack on September 11.
In 2007 he created Fundação Romero Britto.
National recognition
Then Governor Jeb Bush in 2005 named Romero Britto as Ambassador of the Arts of the State of Florida. No year to follow or artist received Medalha Joaquim Nabuco offered by Assembleia Estadual de Pernambuco.
In 2011 Romero Britto was an official World Cup artist, for two years he was instead awarded as a Medalha Tiradentes offered by the State Assembly of Rio de Janeiro.
In the World Cup to follow, in 2014, he was an ambassador of the World Cup of FIFA Brazil and in 2016 he carried all of the Olympic Games do Rio.
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