Francisco Rebolo Gonsales, widely known as Francisco Rebolo or just Rebolo (August 22, 1902 – July 10, 1980), was a Brazilian

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

and footballer. He was a son of Spanish immigrants that arrived into Brazil at the end of the 19th century.

Biography

He was born on August 22, 1902 in

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. He lived intensely two different life paths: from 1917 to 1932, he was an

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player. He played for

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from 1921 to 1927, and for Ypiranga after that. Both are based in São Paulo city. From 1934 on, he became a painter. He was founder of Grupo Santa Helena, together with Fulvio Pennacchi, Aldo Bonadei, Humberto Rosa, Manuel Martins, Clóvis Graciano, Mario Zanini, Alfredo Volpi and Alfredo Rizzotti. Rebolo is considered as one of the most important

landscape painters A landscape is the visible features of an area of Terrestrial ecoregion, land, its landforms, and how they integrate with Nature, natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Diction ...

of Brazilian art. His work is estimated in more than 3.000 paintings, hundreds of drawings, and a set of fifty

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images. Besides landscapes, he also had an important work with

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s and

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paintings, particularly of flowers. Nowadays, Rebolo works figure in the main Brazilian

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s, in the

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of cultural and governmental organizations, as well as in privately held collections all over Brazil. Rebolo was also the creator of the

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of the

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, drawn in the 1930s. He died on July 10, 1980 in São Paulo.

Biography

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