Brazilian art

September 24, 2017 – April 15, 2018

Brazilian illustrator and designer Willian Santiago creates beautiful artworks inspired by local animals, vegetation and his home town of Londrina.

Its striking Colors and Tropicalism is the strong point in the Brazilian Art of the Artist Lobo Firstly, Lobo did not think about being a painter and one

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The Boitatá, the guardian of the rainforests, is a creature of Brazilian popular mythology. The legend of Boitatá describes this folkloric character as a large fire snake who protects the animals and the forests from people who start fires in the woods.

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Artist and poet José Francisco Borges was born in 1935 in the village of Bezerros, Pernambuco state, in Northeastern Brazil. Today Borges is Brazil's best-known folk artist working in the wood-cut medium, and his work has been exhibited all over the world. But he comes out of a long tradition of folk poet/artists who publish their own work in the form of small (generally about 6" by 9") cheap chap-books or pamphlets written in verse, known as folhetos. They are also known as literatura de…

Illustration lets us express our ideas, no matter how abstract. The works of these top illustrators are an example of the sheer power of this art form.

Travel posters created for licensing with Brazil as the theme.

Image 4 of 11 from gallery of Roberto Burle Marx: A Master of Much More than Just Modernist Landscape. A cover design for a 1953 issue of Rio magazine. Burle Marx experimented with new forms in different formats, including works of sculpture, which he often integrated into his landscape designs. Image Courtesy of Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, Rio de Janeiro