As 13 imperdíveis works by Beatriz Milhazes
A Brazilian painter Beatriz Milhazes has left to be considered just a jewel of Brazilian art to reach international salons with her abstract art.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, a painter has been invested in the artistic universe through painting, engraving and collagen. Até the days of leaf, Milhazes call to attention for creating super colorful and original works with an unmistakable DNA.
Let's conheir together some precious work desses!
1. Mulatinho
Painted in 2008, Mulatinho is a typical canvas of the artist's style: full of hearts and geometric shapes. The fabric is huge, measuring 248 x 248 cm, and currently belongs to a particular Collection. Or the use of arabesques is also frequent in the visual poetics composed by the artist.
2. Butterfly
Painted in 2004, or picture fez, part of an exhibition called Jardim Botânico, held in Pérez Art Museum Miami, in the United States. It is an acrylic on canvas squared with large dimensions (249 x 249 cm).
The curator-chef responsible for this retrospective of Beatriz Milhazes held in the United States was Tobias Ostrander, to show a reunion of 40 works by the artist.
3. Or magical
A cloth or magic was the first to go bankrupt or a record of contemporary Brazilian work, plus bem pays in foreign leilões. Até então o remede was the painter from São Paulo, Tarsila do Amaral. Painted in 2001, or painting was sold in a Sotheby’s collection, in Nova Iorque, in 2008, for US $ 1.05 million.
4. Or modern
Another great international successor by Beatriz Milhazes is a modern O canvas, painted in 2002. In a leilão made at Sotheby's in 2015, the work was awarded for US $ 1.2 million. Before going to leilão, fabric had belonged to a Spanish collector who bought it in 2001 for US $ 15 thousand. Or modern is a typical work of the artist, as a series of circles occupying almost the totality of the canvas.
5. Or spelho
Conceived in 2000, this abstract art by Beatriz Milhazes is a large serigraphy work, measuring 101.6 cm by 60.96 cm, made on Coventry Rag Paper 335 g. It is a vertical creation, mostly pasteis (generally only used by the artist) as typical arabesques and circles that make up the artist's digital printing.
6. Or buddha
Also raised in 2000, O Buddha is an acrylic painting on canvas with enormous dimensions (191 cm x 256.50 cm). Or picture is a practical example of how the artist wants to work with immensely strong and powerful hearts-or carnival, even, is an inspiration for her children.
7. In Albis
O title do quadro escolhido pela artist means "internally alheio a um subject; sem noção do que deveria know. "Painted in 1996, a work in acrylic on canvas measuring 184.20 cm by 299.40 cm and belongs, since 2001, to the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Nova Iorque (United States).
8. Or blue elephant
Raised in 2002, a cloth O blue elephant was raised to Christie's and ended up attacked for about US $ 1.5 million. An artist has fallen on occasion to respect the composition of a specific fabric:
It has a musical structure in its composition. A great characteristic within this context is the musical guidelines that he began to work not in the beginning two years 2000 and that he has been working as arabesques. São specific musical elements that discuss among themselves, with different rhythms, cores and forms creating a musical geometry.
9. Pure beauty
Painted in 2006, Pure Beauty is a large acrylic work on canvas (200cm by 402cm). At the same time it has a very rich mixture of cores that harmonize with each other, creating an idea of everything, but for a micro piece that can be perceived from its singular beauty.
10. As four stations
A coletânea As quatro estações brings together four imnse fabrics that represent the stages of the year - spring, summer, autumn and winter. The tables, of great dimensions, have all the same height, have different lengths, in tune with the unequal duration of each station. This work was exhibited at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, in Lisbon.
11. Liberty
The Liberty work was created in 2007 and is about a collage on 135cm x 130cm paper. O work brings together a series of cut-outs and overlays. Chama a atenção or color da peça and also have characteristic spheres that povoam the work of Milhazes.
12. Gamboa
Gamboa is from a boêmio bairro do Rio de Janeiro, but also from Beatriz Milhazes escorted to beat some of her peças of her, an immense colorful mobile.
As creations in 3D are a novelty in the production of the artist who affirms:
This is my new start, but I still can't reason or 3D hair. But I never visualize the circles that he painted us as spheres, gaining this physicality in the real world. At the same time I do not have volume, minhas fabrics have an overlapping of images that indicates a possible depth not flat space. Seeing the images ganhando corpo helps to think about two elements available in painting - comments to the painter, who thinks about giving sequence to sculptural works. - It can be a future path. Much effort gives the possibility of penetrating the works, despite these sculptures not being interative. A sonoridade dos materiais also encourages me very much.
13. Um sonho de valsa
A cloth Um sonho de Valsa (known in English as Dream Waltz) was created between 2004 and 2005 and it is a collagem. São Embalagens do bombom Sonho de Valsa for also two labels of Bis, Crunch, and a series of other national and imported chocolates from more varied brands. O work was 172.7 cm by 146.7 cm in February 2017, it was sold to the Rio de Janeiro Art Exchange for a minimum of 550,000 reais.
Biography
A painter Beatriz Ferreira Milhazes was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960. She formed in social communication at the Faculdade Hélio Alonso and in plastic arts at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, in 1983. She remained in Lage Park as a painting teacher até 1996.
Além das telas, Beatriz Milhazes also works together with irmã, choreographer Márcia Milhazes, being responsible for cenario hairs.
An artist ganhou international fame has participated in bienais from Veneza (2003), from São Paulo (1998 and 2004) and from Shanghai (2006).
In relation to individual exhibitions, she carried out national works such as at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2008) and at Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro (2013).
I do not stranger she has individual shows you follow us spaces:
- Fondation Cartier, Paris (2009)
- Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2011)
- Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2012)
- Museum of Latin American Art (Malba), in Buenos Aires (2012)
- Pérez Art Museum, em Miami (2014/2015).
In March 2010, she received a commendation from the Ordem do Ipiranga by the Government of the State of São Paulo.
Or a physical artist's atelier not in the Botanic Gardens, not in Rio de Janeiro, and at the moment it has only a single assistant.
Beatriz Milhazes in the 80's
When she has been an artist for 24 years, she has participated in the artistic movement Como Vai Você, Geração 80, onde 123 artists who question the military authority through two serious works to celebrate the long-awaited democracy. A collective exhibition was held in 1984, at the Escola de Artes do Parque do Lage, not Rio de Janeiro.
Despite the fact that it has not happened in Rio, there is an exhibition with participants from São Paulo (from FAAP) and from Minas Gerais (from Escola Guinard and Escola de Belas Artes da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais).
Beside Beatriz Milhazes were great names like Frida Baranek, Karen Lambrecht, Leonilson, Ângelo Venosa, Leda Catunda, Sérgio Romagnolo, Sérgio Niculitcheff, Daniel Senise, Barrão, Jorge Duarte and Victor Arruda.
Where are the works of Beatriz Milhazes
It is possible to find works by a contemporary Brazilian artist from the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, do Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), em Nova Iorque, do 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, not Japan and not Museo Reina Sofia, in Madrid, among others.
In 2007, Milhazes created a specific project to connect Brazil to the Gloucester Road metro station, in London. You will feel small in cut vinyl adhesive, huge, ficavam same on the platform.
A similar intervention, carried out with the same technique, was also held in London, not a Tate Modern restaurant.
Curiosity: you face the idea of the value of the sale of fabrics by Beatriz Milhazes?
Or the first picture that the artist sold was in 1982, for a colleague in the painting course of the Escola de Artes do Parque do Lage, not Rio de Janeiro. From the to the muita coisa mudou, currently Beatriz Milhazes is considered a Brazilian artist alive more expensive.
Foram you remember broken, in 2008, the O Mágico fabric (2001) was sold for US $ 1.05 million. In 2012, the Meu Limão canvas (2000) was awarded the Sotheby’s Gallery for US $ 2.1 million.
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