Teresa Nicolao (born February 8, 1928) is a Brazilian artist, designer and film maker.
She was born Maria Tereza Joaquim Nicolao in
Rio de Janeiro
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. Nicalao studied graphic arts and design with Axel Leskoscheck at the
Fundação Getúlio Vargas. In 1949, she went to
Paris
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, where she studied with
Fernand Léger
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painting, painter, sculpture, sculptor, and film director, filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually ...
,
André Lhote,
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and
Árpád Szenes. Later the following year, she moved to
São Paulo
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, where she worked as a set designer for . In 1954, Nicolao returned to Rio de Janeiro, where she resumed painting, working in the studio of
Candido Portinari. She began painting geometric works inspired by the
favela
Favela () is an umbrella name for several types of impoverished neighborhoods in Brazil. The term, which means slum or ghetto, was first used in the Slum of Providência in the center of Rio de Janeiro in the late 19th century, which was b ...
s; her later work became more abstract. She also worked on set design for several films.
Mexico City
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, the 1960 Venice Biennale
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and the 1961 Biennale de Paris. She was included in an exhibition of works by Brazilian artists which was presented in several cities in Europe in 1960. in In 1961, she had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro.[
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1928 births
Living people
20th-century Brazilian women artists
21st-century Brazilian women artists
21st-century Brazilian artists
Brazilian filmmakers
Brazilian expatriates in France