Solange Magalhães is a painter. Solange Magalhães was born in

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in 1939. Her family moved to

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when she was 13 years old. In 1963, after three years of studying theoretical physics, she chose to be a

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

. She is an autodidact. She has experimented with various painting techniques – oil, acrylic, watercolor, India ink – on different materials such as canvas, paper and masonite. Her first solo exhibition took place in 1968 at the Galeria Goeldi in Rio, invited by the art-critic Clarival do Prado Valladares and introduced by writer

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. Since that time her work has been shown in numerous solo and group shows in the major Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro,

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and

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, as well as in

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and

. Of particular note was the 1980 exhibition at the Studien Galerie at Stuttgart University in Germany, invited by its director, professor

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, and two exhibitions in Rio: ''Solange Magalhães, 30 Years of Painting, a Circular Vision of the World'' at the Fine Arts Museum in Rio de Janeiro (1995); and ''From Chaos to Cosmos'' at the Espaço Cultural Correios (2007).

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* 1939 births Living people Brazilian painters Brazilian women painters French emigrants to Brazil 20th-century Brazilian women artists 21st-century Brazilian women artists 21st-century Brazilian artists {{Brazil-painter-stub