Dário Villares Barbosa
Dário Villares Barbosa (1880, Campinas – 1952, Paris) was a Brazilian painter. He is known for his paintings that depict the people and landscapes of Spain and North Africa, which he encountered during his travels. Barbosa's works are distinguished from other painters of his time because they already showed traces of Modernism, modernity. His style of painting was marked by bold colors and strong brushwork, which gave his works a sense of liveliness and vitality. Barbosa's works are held in various collections worldwide, and he is considered one of the most significant Brazilian art, Brazilian painters of the early 20th century. Biography Dario Villares Barbosa was born in Campinas, São Paulo in 1880 and died in Paris, in 1952. He grew up in a family of artists and was interested in art from an early age. He was the twin brother of Mário Barbosa, who was also a painter. Barbosa was a pupil of the painter Oscar Pereira da Silva while in Brazil. He studied with Silva for a fe ...
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Modernism
Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, and social organization which reflected the newly emerging industrial society, industrial world, including features such as urbanization, architecture, new technologies, and war. Artists attempted to depart from traditional forms of art, which they considered outdated or obsolete. The poet Ezra Pound's 1934 injunction to "Make it New" was the touchstone of the movement's approach. Modernist innovations included abstract art, the stream-of-consciousness novel, montage (filmmaking), montage cinema, atonal and twelve-tone music, divisionist painting and modern architecture. Modernism explicitly rejected the ideology of Realism (arts), realism and made use of the works of the past by the employment of reprise, incorpor ...
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