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List Of Brazilian Artists
This is a list of notable Brazilian visual artists. * Abigail de Andrade * Abraham Palatnik * Adriana Bertini * Aleijadinho * Alexandre Orion * Anita Malfatti * Artur Barrio * Augusto de Campos * Bel Borba * Beto Shwafaty * Brígida Baltar * Carlos Latuff * Carybé * Celeida Tostes * Cildo Meireles * Cybèle Varela * Denis Mandarino * Edgard Cognat * Eduardo Kac * Eduardo Munniz * Eduardo Recife * Everaldo Coelho * Francisco Brennand * Giselda Leirner * Gustavo Chams * Guy Veloso * Hélio Oiticica * Hércules Florence * Iberê Camargo * Iran do Espirito Santo * José Pancetti * The Kid * Letícia Parente * Lucia Nogueira * Lygia Clark * Lygia Pape * Marcello Dantas * Marina Amaral * Miguel Torres de Andrade * Moysés Baumstein * Nair de Tefé * Naza * Niobe Xandó * Os Gêmeos * Rachel Rosalen * Rodrigo Franzão * Romero Britto * Katie van Scherpenberg * Sergio de Camargo * Sergio Rossetti Morosini * Silvia Poloto * Sonia Gomes * Tiago Carneiro da Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 States of Brazil, states and the Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese language, Portuguese as an List of territorial entities where Portuguese is an official language, official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most Multiculturalism, multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass Immigration to Brazil, immigration from around the world; and the most populous Catholic Church by country, Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cybèle Varela
Cybèle Varela (born 1943, Petrópolis) is a Brazilian mixed-media artist. She is a painter, video artist, and photographer. Career From 1962 to 1966, Cybèle Varela studied visual arts at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. She began her career as a painter and sculptor, winning the ''Young Contemporary Art Prize'' at the Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo in 1967 with the triptych: "Of all that could have been, but that wasn’t". The same year she exhibited for the first time at the Sao Paulo Art Biennial. Varela was awarded a scholarship by the French government to study in Paris at the Ecole du Louvre in 1968-69. In 1971-72 she stayed at the Cité internationale des arts, and in 1976-78 studied at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. The French art critic Pierre Restany wrote “Cybèle Varela does not paint landscapes. The utter commonplace of the mirror-image is for her nothing but a pretext”. In Geneva in the 1980s, her work focusse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iberê Camargo
Iberê Bassani Camargo (18 November 1914, in Restinga Seca – 8 August 1994, in Porto Alegre) was a Brazilian painter, one of the greatest expressionist artists from his country. Shortly after his death, the Iberê Camargo Foundation was created by his widow, Maria Coussirat Camargo. Since 2008, the Foundation headquarters and museum is located in a building designed by Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza. Thousands of paintings by Camargo are on display there. External links Iberê Camargo Foundation website 1914 births 1994 deaths 20th-century Brazilian painters 20th-century Brazilian male artists Brazilian contemporary artists {{Brazil-painter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hércules Florence
Antoine Hercule Romuald Florence (February 29, 1804 – March 27, 1879) was a Monegasque-Brazilian painter and inventor, known as the isolate inventor of photography in Brazil, three years before Daguerre (but six years after Nicéphore Niépce), using the matrix negative/positive, still in use. According to Kossoy, who examined Florence's notes, he referred to his process, in French, as ''photographie'' in 1834, at least four years before John Herschel coined the English word ''photography''. Early life Hercules Florence was born on February 29, 1804 in Nice, France, the son of Arnaud Florence (1749–1807), a tax collector, and Augustine de Vignolis, a minor noblewoman. As a child he manifested interest for drawing and the sciences, as well as for the voyages of the great explorers to the New World and already as a 14-year-old boy he worked as a calligrapher and draftsman in Monaco, where his parents had been living since 1807. After a period of wandering and working on board o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hélio Oiticica
Hélio Oiticica (; July 26, 1937 – March 22, 1980) was a Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, painter, performance artist, and theorist, best known for his participation in the Neo-Concrete Movement, for his innovative use of color, and for what he later termed "environmental art", which included ''Parangolés'' and ''Penetrables,'' like the famous ''Tropicália.'' Oiticica was also a filmmaker and writer. Early life and education Oiticica was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to mother Ângela Santos Oiticica and father José Oiticica Filho. He had two younger brothers, architect César Oiticica, and Cláudio Oiticica. Oiticica's family was educated and involved in liberal politics. His father taught mathematics, was an engineer, entomologist, and lepidopterologist, a scientist who researched butterflies. He was also an avid photographer, creating experimental photographs that were new to Brazil. His grandfather was a well known philologist, who studied literary texts an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Veloso
Guy Veloso (born 1969) is a Brazilian documentary photographer. Biography Guy Benchimol de Veloso was born and works in Belém in the State of Pará, Brazil, a city of 1.5 million inhabitants in the Amazon rainforest. A Law graduate by Federal University of Pará, he has been a photographer since 1989, with several international publications to his credit. All his projects are made with analog equipment. Invited by the curators ''Agnaldo Farias'' and ''Moacir dos Anjos'', the latest project of Guy Veloso, ''The Penitents: Rituals of blood to the fascination of the world’s end'', attended the 29th São Paulo Art Biennial(2010). Career His work is part of the ''Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA)'', Colchester (England), ''Portuguese Center of Photography'' in Porto (Portugal), ''MASP - São Paulo Museum of Art'' (Brazil), '' Museum Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro'' and '' Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo'' (Brazil). In 2005 started his career as curator. In t ... [...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, 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 granted him access to work with Brazilian local celebrities. His work received notoriety after working with celebrities such as Gisele Bündchen, Thaila Ayala, Isabeli Fontana, Stella McCartney, Gaspard Ulliel and Caroline Trentini;Tuka Abrão, "Gustavo Chams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giselda Leirner
Giselda Leirner (born 1928) is a Brazilian writer, illustrator, and plastic artist. She was born in São Paulo, Brazil. Her works have been exhibited at São Paulo Museum of Art. Leirner went to the Art Students League and the Parsons The New School for Design in New York City where she took classes with Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, Yolanda Mohalyi and Poty Lazarotto. She earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy at the Universidade de São Paulo and has a master's degree in philosophy of religion Philosophy of religion is "the philosophical examination of the central themes and concepts involved in religious traditions". Philosophical discussions on such topics date from ancient times, and appear in the earliest known texts concerning ph .... Books *''A Filha de Kafka'' contos, Ed. Massao Hono, Brasil (trad. fr. de Monique Le Moing :''La Fille de Kafka'', Ed.Joelle Loesfeld, Gallimard) *''Nas Aguas do mesmo Rio'', Ateliê Editora, Brasil *''O Nono Mês'', Brasil *" Naufragios " E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Brennand
Francisco Brennand, or ''Francisco de Paula de Almeida Brennand'', (June 11, 1927 – December 19, 2019), was a Brazilian painter and sculptor, best known for his work in ceramics. Life Francisco de Paula de Almeida Brennand was born in Recife, Brazil, to Ricardo Monteiro Brennand and Olímpia Padilha Nunes Coimbra on June 11, 1927. He was a descendant from an Irish ancestor who migrated to Recife in 1820 and married into a sugar plantation family. His father, Ricardo Brennand, added ceramic tile and brick to the business in 1917, and sent his son Francisco to Europe to study technical ceramic skills. Arriving in Paris in 1949, Brennand discovered the ceramic work of Pable Picasso, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, and became a ceramic artist. In 1948, he married Déborah de Moura Vasconcelos. In 1950 he was awarded second prize at the 9th Pernambuco Salon with the painting “Mamão e Bananas”. In 1961, Brennand began producing the ceramic mural “Batalha dos Guararapes” ... [...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 syste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Recife
Eduardo Recife is an artist, illustrator and typographer from Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ..., known for his distinct collage style which combines vintage imagery, magazine cuts, textures, stains and many details and symbols. Recife is also known for his 35 typefaces, of which the majority is freeware. Recife received the Cannes Lion Gold (2011), the American Illustration (2009) and the Young Illustrations Award (2014). In the field of photography, the artist has had his work acknowledged with the publishing of his book “My Dear India” (2010). References External links Official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Recife, Eduardo Brazilian contemporary artists Collage artists 1980 births Living people People from Belo Horizonte 21st-century Brazilian arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Munniz
Eduardo Munniz is a Brazilian actor of TV series and artist. Muniz is well known for Brazil's male voice talents. Career Munniz graduated in acting from Michael Howard Studios in New York City. His Bengali debut film is ''Amazon Obhijaan'', sequel of the movie ''Chander Pahar (film), Chander Pahar'', directed by Kamaleshwar Mukherjee. Before appearing this Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali film he directed theater, performed as voice over artist in The Coca-Cola Company's Campaigns, Volkswagen Brasil, Sundance TV, HSBC Bank like commercial programs. Munniz also worked in the advertisement of various companies like Pepsi, Rolling Stone magazine, Vivo (smartphone), Vivo, Honda, GM, Ford Motor Company, Ford, Itaipava etc. References External links * Living people Brazilian male film actors Brazilian artists Year of birth missing (living people) {{Brazil-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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