12 great Brazilian artists and their works
1. Tarsila do Amaral
Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973) is considered one of the greatest Brazilian painters. É de autoria dela, for example, or famous quadro AbaporuOne of the most important works of our culture.
A plastic artist, who was born in São Paulo (in Capivari), was the filha of a traditional and rich family from the region, donated by a series of fazendas.
Despite being born in Brazil, Tarsila fez largely gives her artistic training in Europe having moved to Barcelona at the age of 16. Although I lived in Spain, I also studied in Paris, where I came in contact with modern art, which I later helped to create for Brazil.
Tarsila's works are quite varied, but we can sublimate a common traço than é o I wish to represent Brazilian people and countries. Tarsila was a painter of tropical themes, from the rural area of Brazil, but she also portrayed a city that was modernizing as typical transformations of the industrialization process.
A painter has used many times his fabrics as cores of the national flag, as well as illustrating a series of folkloric people from our culture such as cuca, for example.
Despite her, I have many compliments to our country, Tarsila não deixou de fazer também social criticism. Em AbaporuShe, for example, highlighted the devaluation of intellectual work to or paint a small head in opposition to enormous members.
In terms of style, Tarsila began to paint squares with cubist inspiration, but ended up spending later to exercise a more realistic style and experimented with geometric contours.
The artist's production is divided into critical hairs in three different phases: Pau-Brasil, Anthropophagic and Social.
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2. Anita Malfatti
Uma das grandes responsáveis pela renoção da painting no nosso country Foi Anita Malfatti (1889-1964), filha of a North American painting teacher as an Italian engenheiro.
Anita, who was born in the country and needed to train as a teacher before completing the age of 18, began to do her first work with plastic arts influenced by mine.
At the age of 21, a girl was born in Berlim, sponsored by an uncle, where she developed her talent or attended the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. Foi in Europe that Anita conheceu or Cubism and or Expressionism, that will influence her art.
Além da Alemanha, a painter also studied in Nova Iorque in Paris. When she returned to Brazil, she started in 1914, meeting many important non-artistic friends like Di Cavalcanti.
Anita became one of two great names in modern painting, gathering praise, but also criticism as well as feitas for Monteiro Lobato.
SillyOne of her two most famous paintings, was painted between 1915 and 1916 and features cubist and futuristic elements. Feito with long brushstrokes, or quadro tem an abstract background and conta with muita influence of expressionism for fazer use of the contrast between the cores and to value a solitary personagem, possibly anguished.
Anita was a revolutionary in Brazil - and was also highly criticized - to abandon realism and highlight her traditional works. that she considered to be the most expressive ones, just as, for isso, she needed to distance herself from reality and use cores unexpected.
The painter was especially interested in everyday topics, many times her personal universe, and she does not need to be a refém of a commitment as real. Or her work broke with the academic rigor that reigned in her geração in previous years.
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3. Adriana Varejão
Adriana Varejão (1964) is one of the two biggest names in contemporary plastic arts with work not only on painting, but also on sculpture, photography and installation.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, a young man attended the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage in 1983 and opened his logo or his first ateliê in the area south of Rio de Janeiro.
Even at the beginning of her career, Adriana traveled to the United States where she developed a lot in her personal language. Awarded not Brazil and not foreign, I see artist creating various works that go through different styles and meios.
Or work Ruins of flesh It is an example of a lot that is found in the artist's work: pieces that work with the idea of what is left over (the remains), of violence, of cannibalism, of destruction, of history and of the monument. Há também muita baroque influence Its creation is based on the presence of tiles, which will be a kind of registered trademark of the artist.
Browse today and it is possible to find her works in major centers such as London (Tate Modern), Nova Iorque (Guggenheim) and Tokyo (Hara Museum). Not Brazil, most of its parts are in the Inhotim Contemporary Art Center, in Minas Gerais.
4. Vik muniz
Born in São Paulo, Vik Muniz (1961) fled to the United States and was condemned for using his rare and everyday materials as geleia and creme de amendoim.
Formed in publicity, or young I was for the United States to tempt life when he was 22 years old.
As well as two works with famous images such as Mona Lisa or portraits of Freud and Che Guevara, Vik Muniz also develops a 100% original work from unexpected materials.
Another characteristic traço of the work of Vik Muniz is a composition from perishable materials and normally not used non-artistic as ketchup, sugar, feijão, coffee and sucata. Há também uma forte social consciousness nas suas criações, or artist and provocateur who wishes to summon or his public to think.
Vik Muniz tries, through his works, to call attention to both social problems and atmospheres of our time. Um two most famous works of him registered ficou no documentary Extraordinary liquor (2010).
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5. Helio Oiticica
More conhecido pelas suas performances, o Rioca Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980) also deixou o seu nome inscribed in the plastic arts in works related to painting and sculpture.
A reference gives concrete art, Oiticica learned his first lições de artes em casa, com o pai, who was a photographer and painter.
Hélio began to make his first exhibitions not at the beginning of two years 50 and, the same decade, he met with other Neo-concretes such as Lygia Clark and Ferreira Gullar.
Assim like colleagues, Oiticica accredited that or public fazia part of the work artistic, and it was natural that you could feel yourself, touch, use or even cheer the creation of the artist.
Parangolé, or more of her work, consisted of very colorful layers that were dressed in public hair. The idea was that, ao dance with her, as layers fizessem a liberating movement.
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6. Beatriz Milhazes
Beatriz Milhazes (1960) from Rio de Janeiro is known for her colorful, abstract squares, full of geometric shapes, além of frequently using arabesques and flowers.
Beatriz Milhazes does not face only painting, she also creates engravings, collagens, illustrations, installations and dining rooms (many for her, Márcia, who is in front of a dance company).
Trained in Social Communication, a plastic artist began to raise when she enrolled in the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage.
The national succession began in 1984, when she participated in an exhibition dedicated to the generation of 80 in Parque Lage. Later, Beatriz also fez part das bienais de Veneza (2003), São Paulo (1998 and 2004) and Shanghai (2006). From then on, the visual artist managed to spread more and more of her paintings, currently counting as a series of peças em important international museums such as MoMa, or Metropolitan, a Fondation Cartier and or Guggenheim.
Em Pure beauty (2006) we see a small demonstration of her work. Or square is loaded with geometric elements and many colors. A canvas, of large dimensions, allows multiple readings and rich in details that helps to compor um all intense, full of information.
The fabrics of Beatriz Milhazes são, generally, marked by baroque aesthetics, hair excess of elements, hair ornaments that impact the spectator.
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7. Lygia clark
One of the most innovative plastic artists from Brazil was a mineira Lygia Clark (1920-1988), who created her work based on numa sensory and interactive art.
Lygia wanted viewers to interact with the works created by her and who are capable of experiencing in various ways two serious works of her, such as this or case of children raised for a series. YouBugs (1960). As geometric metal sculptures are articulated and allow various different assemblies.
The Bugs, the most famous series of the plastic artist, fizeram like Lygia received or prize of national sculpture during the VI Bienal de São Paulo.
Lygia Clark, who is part of Neo-Concreteism, accredits numa inclusive art, that invited or public to manipulate as peças.
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8. Candido Portinari
O painter, engraver and illustrator Candido Portinari (1903-1962) is or did not go after some of the most famous works of Brazilian plastic arts, such as, for example, or quadro Coffee (1935).
Politically embittered, or painter used many times this way his canvases for portray the difficulties faced by Brazilian hairs not day by day.
Na cloth Coffee We see a golden period of Brazil in contrast with the heavy working conditions faced by homens and women involved not coffee. Make sure that two workers are disproportionate, sublinhando or braçal work.
The fabric that we mention is held at the International Exhibition of Modern Art in New York and was first awarded an international prize for painter.
Portinari foi um voice-bearer of social injustices I tried to disclose a Brazil marked by uneven skin using a brush on the fabrics.
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9. Say Cavalcanti
The modernist artist Di Cavalcanti (1897-1976) was a master of painting two portraits of Brazilian culture e day by day do nosso povo.
To cloth Samba (1925) is a great example of a painter's work, who uses many cores and fazia questão to paint bodies with many curves. The works of Di Cavalcanti are especially marked by the presence of people, who interact with others in a sensual and / or loving way.
Na cloth Samba we see a series of typical personages of our culture represented as or homem as or cavaquinho (fazendo menção a boemia) e as women as signs to show, embracing sensuality that emerges especially in the period of carnival.
Other memorable themes that Di Cavalcanti painted over the years give life to favelas, workers, blacks and popular festivals.
Di Cavalcanti was an important part of the Modern Art Week, including an illustrated or letter and a catalog of the event. An artist is involved, alongside other modernist colleagues, not in the process of renovation of the plastic arts in Brazil.
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10. Lasar segall
Born in Lithuania, Lasar Segall (1891-1957) saw Brazil for the first time in 1923, to visit family and, not the same year, he resolved to settle in São Paulo for good.
Or a painter, sculptor, engraver and debunker, he was a Jew and found in Brazil, a safe port for the long haul of a troubled Europe.
Os seus works of him were marked by modern aesthetic and drink a lot of European vanguard.
Among his most frequent themes of him were emigration, those marginalized in the tropical countries that he encountered in Brazil. There were obvious concerns about Segall, who showed through his fabrics, social inequality, violence and poverty.
Em Zulmira's Profile (1928) we see a portrait of a mulher as an abstract, geometric background. On the canvas, it is possible to notice cubist and modernist influences so much so that it does not base the picture when we are outlined by the main character. These traços were very present to us Brazilian painters from the modernist era.
11. Alfredo Volpi
Known as the master of the bandeirinhas, Alfredo Volpi (1896-1988) was an artist who stood out in the Second Generation of Modern Art.
Muitas das suas telas de el carregam bandeirinhas e typical images of Brazilian culture like, for example, sereia.
Not quadro He laughed (1960) we see a personagem do national folklore portrayed with simple contours, an apparently childlike exercise. Nesse quadro specifically, Volpi did not wear muitas cores, ficando only with tons of blue, green, black and white. In addition, two serious works of him have used more varied colors.
Despite being born in Tuscany (Italy), Volpi went to Brazil as a year and went from to or from two countries. In 1911, he began to paint paintings and murals in the mansions of São Paulo and the passou logo for the pictures.
Or recognition as a great painter only saw him in 1940, after winning an IPHAN contest.
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12. Romero Britto
Or the most popular contemporary Brazilian painter, Romero Britto (1963). Or Brazilian who left Recife fez carreira nos the United States, where at this page he is living in Miami.
With an unmistakable colorful and neo-cubist pop style, or artist, inspired by Picasso, has works backed by a series of countries around the world such as Switzerland, Israel and France.
Besides two paintings, Romero Britto also made installations and sculptures in public and private spaces.
Or style of Pernambuco and characterized by vibrant cores, pelas geometric and asymmetric shapes e for being an art of easy understanding of the great public - as can be seen from Heart kids.
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