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List Of Brazilian Artists
The following is a list of Brazilian visual artists (in alphabetical order by last name) includes artists of various genres, who are notable and are either born in Brazil, of Brazilian descent or who produce works that are primarily about Brazil. A * Abigail de Andrade (1864–1890), painter * Zina Aita (1900–1967), Italian-Brazilian modernist painter * Georgina de Albuquerque (1885–1962), Impressionist painter * Aleijadinho (c. 1738–1814), sculptor and architect * Mara Alvares (born 1948), contemporary artist * Marina Amaral (born 1994), colorization of antique photography * Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973), modernist painter, draftswoman, and translator * Abigail de Andrade (1864–1890), painter * Amanda Maciel Antunes (fl 2000s), costume designer * Camila Alves (born 1982), fashion designer * Maria Auxiliadora (artist), Maria Auxiliadora (1935–1974), painter B * Brígida Baltar (c. 1959–2022), video artist, performance artist, installation artist, draftspers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population, seventh-largest by population, with over 212 million people. The country is a federation composed of 26 Federative units of Brazil, states and a Federal District (Brazil), Federal District, which hosts the capital, Brasília. List of cities in Brazil by population, Its most populous city is São Paulo, followed by Rio de Janeiro. Brazil has the most Portuguese-speaking countries, Portuguese speakers in the world and is the only country in the Americas where Portuguese language, Portuguese is an Portuguese-speaking world, official language. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazil, coastline of . Covering roughly half of South America's land area, it Borders of Brazil, borders all other countries and ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bel Borba
Alberto José Costa Borba, known professionally as Bel Borba, is a Brazilian graphic artist, mosaic maker and sculptor, born in 1957. He lives in Salvador da Bahia, where he has intervened in the public arena of Brazil with hundreds of works, sculptures, mosaic A mosaic () is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/Mortar (masonry), mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and ... murals and urban art installations, mostly employing found objects. He spent a month in New York City in the summer of 2012, where he constructed numerous outdoor pieces. A documentary film about his life and work, ''Bel Borba Aqui'', was released in March 2012. References 1957 births Living people Brazilian sculptors {{Brazil-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Da Cunha
Alexandre da Cunha (born 1969) is a Brazilian-British artist, who produces sculpture and wall mounted works, often using found objects. His works have been exhibited around the world, and are located in several major public collections. Biography Alexandre da Cunha was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1969. After initial studies at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado in Brazil, da Cunha moved to the United Kingdom in the late 1990s, studying sculpture at the Royal College of Art before moving to the Chelsea College of Arts. Since his studies, da Cunha lives and works in both London and São Paulo. In the early 1990s, da Cunha began working with Galeria Luisa Strina, the oldest contemporary art gallery in Brazil – with his first solo exhibition taking place in 1998. Work In his work, da Cunha mixes the use of found, mass produced and 'ready made' objects with 'traditional' sculpture – by repurposing and reusing them. In 2006, he stated that the items that he uses often have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgard Cognat
Edgard Cognat (March 13, 1919 – August 16, 1994) was a Brazilian painter and sculptor born in Rio de Janeiro. Early life and career As a child, during his school years, Edgard already showed interest in art, specially drawing. He was also a music enthusiast, and his favourite instrument was the violin. He actually studied violin with his father and he turned 16, though a short time later he realized music wasn't for him, and he decided to dedicate most of his time to his biggest talent: painting. At 17, he joined the "Belas Artes" course in Rio directed by Professor Carlos Chambelland, with whom he studied drawing, painting and decorative art. After studying the methods used by some of the greatest European artists of all time, like Rembrandt, Rubens, Dürer and others, he started his unique experiences with drawing, in several different phases: "água-forte" (in metal), xylography (drawing in wood) and lithography (drawing in stone). Four years later, he showed his artw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everaldo Coelho
Everaldo Coelho (; born March 25, 1978) is a Brazilian graphic designer and illustrator. He specializes in iconography, themes and user interface design. Everaldo's works include general illustrations, comics, children's books, corporate design and many other areas. He is known in Linux circles for his "Crystal" icon theme. Career Everaldo worked for Conectiva and LindowsOS, and later as a freelance artist for SUSE, KDE, Mozilla and many other Linux-related projects. He has also worked on various projects for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows XP platforms. In 2004, he joined Lindows.com as a full-time Lindows.com employee. Currently, he is the head of UX at Movile and consultant at Yellowicon Studio. Everaldo started out as an illustrator. He has illustrated many children's books, school books, and magazines (including one specialized in Linux). In 1998, when Everaldo purchased his first PC, he saw a Mac in the computers store. Not understanding much about operating systems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lygia Clark
Lygia Pimentel Lins (23 October 1920 – 25 April 1988), better known as Lygia Clark, was a Brazilian artist best known for her painting and Installation art, installation work. She was often associated with the Brazilian Constructivist movements of the mid-20th century and the Tropicalia movement. Along with Brazilian artists Amilcar de Castro, Franz Weissmann, Lygia Pape and poet Ferreira Gullar, Clark co-founded the Neo-Concrete Movement, Neo-Concrete movement. From 1960 on, Clark discovered ways for viewers (who would later be referred to as "participants") to interact with her art works. Clark's work dealt with the relationship between inside and outside, and, ultimately, between self and world. Life Clark was born in 1920 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. In 1938, she married Aluízio Clark Ribeiro, a civil engineer, and moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she gave birth to three children between 1941 and 1945.Cornelia Butler and Luis Pérez-Oramas, ''Lygia Clark: The Abandonment o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Chams
Gustavo Chams (; born May 28, 1994) is a Brazilian fashion photographer, designer and visual artist. He is known for photographing celebrities such as Gisele Bündchen, Thaila Ayala, Isabeli Fontana, Stella McCartney, Gaspard Ulliel, and Caroline Trentini; and for using one of his exhibitions to publicly criticize the 2019 Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro.Lilian Milena"Brasileiro denuncia fascismo de Bolsonaro em exposição no Canadá", ''Jornal GGN'', October 26, 2018 Biography Born and raised in Santo André, Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ..., Gustavo started to work at early age as a digital retoucher and graph operator in a local photography lab. A few years later, as a photographer, he signed his first fashion cover which later grant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renato Cataldi
Renato Cataldi (born December 25, 1909, São Paulo, Brazil; died May 29, 1981, Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the List of cities in Brazil by population, second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the Largest cities in the America ..., Brazil) was a Brazilian painter. Cataldi is catalogued in the Julius Louzada's ''Dictionary of Arts'', and won several awards from the annual Salon organised by Escola Nacional de Belas Artes. Cataldi, who lived and painted in and around the city of Rio de Janeiro, focused on landscapes, seascapes, marine subjects and nature scenes featuring exotic birds of various species from trees, as if they were loose in nature. His paintings often appear at large international auction houses. References 1909 births 1981 deaths Artists from São Paulo 20th-century Brazilian painters 20th-century Brazilian male artists {{Brazil-p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carybé
Héctor Julio Páride Bernabó (7 February 1911 – 2 October 1997) was an Argentine-Brazilian artist, researcher, writer, historian and journalist. His nickname and artistic name, Carybé, a type of piranha, comes from his time in the scouts. He died of heart failure after the meeting of a candomblé community's lay board of directors, the Cruz Santa Opô Afonjá Society, of which he was a member. He produced thousands of works, including paintings, drawings, sculptures and sketches. He was an ''Obá de Xangô'', an honorary position at Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá. Orixá panels in the Afro-Brazilian Museum in Salvador Some of Carybé's work can be found in the Afro-Brazilian Museum in Salvador: 27 cedar panels representing different orixás or divinities of the Afro-Brazilian religion candomblé. Each panel shows a divinity with their associated implements and animal. The work was commissioned by the former Banco da Bahia S.A., now Banco BBM S.A., which originally installe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiago Carneiro Da Cunha
Tiago Carneiro da Cunha (born 1973 in São Paulo, Brazil), is a Brazilian artist. He is the son of José Mariano Carneiro da Cunha and Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, anthropologists. During his formative years, he took life-drawing classes in the studio of local painter Sergio Sister, drew comics, which were published, when he was 17, in the Brazilian underground comics mag Animal), and worked as a freelance illustrator for Folha de S.Paulo newspaper and DPZ advertising agency. In his early twenties, after a year studying visual arts at Parsons School, New York, he worked as an assistant to theatre director and visual artist Robert Wilson in several stage productions in Europe and the US. He moved to Barcelona in 1995, where he continued his studies and helped create the XXX collective, with which he presented performances in museums and festivals in Spain and Portugal (Fundació Miró, CCCB, Expo98), and which received the KRTU prize from the Government of Catalunya in 1996. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusto De Campos
Augusto de Campos (born 14 February 1931) is a Brazilian writer who (with his brother Haroldo de Campos) was a founder of the Concrete poetry movement in Brazil. He is also a translator, music critic and visual artist. Work In 1952 he founded the literary magazine '' Noigandres'' with his brother. Then in 1956 he and his associates declared the beginning of a movement. Since then he has had a number of collections and honors. From the 1950s to 1970s his main works were directed towards visual poetry but from 1980 on, he intensified his experiments with new media, presenting his poems on electric billboard, videotext, neon, hologram and laser, computer graphics, and multimedia events, involving sound and music, as the plurivocal reading of CIDADECITYCITÉ with his son Cid Campos (1987–91). Four of his holographic poems in cooperation with the holographer Moysés Baumstein were included in the exhibitions TRILUZ (1986) and IDEHOLOGIA (1987). A "videoclippoem", O PULSAR, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sérgio De Camargo
Sérgio de Camargo (April 8, 1930 – 1990) was a sculptor and relief maker, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sergio De Camargo studied at the Academia Altamira in Buenos Aires under Emilio Pettoruti and Lucio Fontana. Camargo also studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris. On a protracted trip through Europe in 1948, Camargo met Brâncuși, Arp, Henri Laurens and Georges Vantongerloo. Sérgio de Camargo showed work at numerous international exhibitions, including the 1965 São Paulo Biennale (where he won a gold medal), the 1966 Venice Biennale, and the 1968 documenta in Kassel. Sérgio de Camargo died in Rio de Janeiro in 1990. The Tate Gallery in London has one of de Camargo's work in their permanent collection. Early life and education Sergio Camargo was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1930. Camargo began his art education at the Academia Altamira in Buenos Aires under Lucio Fontana and Emilio Pettoruti . He would later move to Paris in 1948, where he enrolled at the Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
