Related Research Articles
Otto Maria Carpeaux, born Otto Karpfen, was an Austrian-born Brazilian literary critic and multilingual scholar.
Abdias do Nascimento was a prominent African Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician. Also a poet, dramatist, and Pan-African activist, Nascimento created the Black Experimental Theater (1944) and the Black Arts Museum (1950), organized the National Convention of Brazilian Blacks (1946), the First Congress of Brazilian Blacks (1950), and the Third Congress of Black Culture in the Americas (1982). Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Buffalo, he was the first Afro-Brazilian member of Congress to champion black people’s human and civil rights in the National Legislature, where in 1983 he presented the first Brazilian proposals for affirmative action legislation. He served as Rio de Janeiro State Secretary for the Defense and Promotion of Afro-Brazilian People and Secretary of Human Rights and Citizenship. While working as curator of the Black Arts Museum project, he began developing his own creative work (painting), and from 1968 on, he exhibited widely in the U.S., Brazil and abroad. He received national and international honors for his work, including UNESCO’s special Toussaint Louverture Award for contribution to the fight against racism, granted to him and to poet Aimé Césaire in 2004. He was officially nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.
Antônio Drauzio Varella is a Brazilian doctor, educator, scientist and medical science popularizer in the press and TV, as well as best-selling author. In addition to medicine, Varella is a public commentator on issues such as prison conditions, social welfare, government, literature and his professed atheism and skepticism.
The Prêmio José Reis de Divulgação Científica is an annual honor awarded by the Brazilian Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) to the institution, media organization, publication, or individual who most contributed to the dissemination and public awareness of science and technology in Brazil. It is thus named in honor of Dr. José Reis, a Brazilian biologist and science writer who was one of the pioneers in the field.
Héctor Julio Páride Bernabó or Carybé was an Argentine-Brazilian painter, engraver, draughtsman, illustrator, potter, sculptor, mural painter, researcher, historian and journalist. He settled in Brazil and naturalized as a Brazilian.
The creation of art in the geographic area now known as Brazil begins with the earliest records of its human habitation. The original inhabitants of the land, pre-Columbian Indian peoples, produced various forms of art; specific cultures like the Marajoara left sophisticated painted pottery. This area was colonized by Portugal in the 16th century and given the modern name of Brazil. Brazilian art is most commonly used as an umbrella term for art created in this region post Portuguese colonization.
Celso Brandão is a photographer who also directed a few documentaries. He can always be found at his headquarters in Carababa Beach, just a few minutes from the city center. Some of his work belong the Pirelli Collection of 1996 He has also received several awards at the Festival do Cinema Brasileiro de Penedo in the years 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979 and 1980. At the moment his is back doing a few documentaries and teaching photography at Federal University of Alagoas.
Alberto Henschel was a German-Brazilian photographer born in Berlin. Considered the hardest-working photographer and businessman in 19th-century Brazil, with offices in Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo, Henschel was also responsible for the presence of other professional photographers in the country, including his compatriot Karl Ernst Papf—with whom he later worked.
Claudio Edinger is a Brazilian photographer born in Rio de Janeiro in 1952. He lived in New York from 1976 to 1996.
André Cypriano is a documentary and fine art photographer, known for his photography of traditional lifestyles and practices of lesser known societies in remote corners of the world.
Events in the year 1901 in Brazil.
Iole Antunes de Freitas is a Brazilian sculptor, engraver, and installation artist who works in the field of contemporary art. Freitas began her career in the 1970s, participating in a group of artists in Milan, Italy linked to Body art. She used photography. In the 1980s, she returned to Brazil, but abandoned the human body as mediator of her work, adopting the "sculpture body". The artist uses materials such as wire, canvas, steel, copper, stone, and water to create her works.
Gisele Camargo is a Brazilian visual artist who works in photography, video and painting. She was born in Rio de Janeiro.
Dudi Maia Rosa is a Brazilian artist.
Rosângela Rennó Gomes is a Brazilian artist who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Her work consists of photographic images from public and private archives that question the nature of an image and its symbolic value. With the use of photographs, installations and objects, she appropriates and sheds new light on an anonymous body of photographs and negatives found mostly in flea markets, family albums, newspapers and archives. Rennó's interest in discarded images and habit of collecting were decisive in establishing her work strategies.
Geraldo de Barros was a Brazilian painter and photographer who also worked in engraving, graphic arts, and industrial design. He was a leader of the concrete art movement in Brazil, co-founding Grupo Ruptura and was known for his trailblazing work in experimental abstract photography and modernism. According to The Guardian, De Barros was "one of the most influential Brazilian artists of the 20th century."
Vera Chaves Barcellos is a Brazilian artist and educator. She was featured in the Radical Women show at the Brooklyn Museum in 2018.
Teresa Nicolao is a Brazilian artist, designer and film maker.
Mary Lucy Murray Del Priore is a Brazilian historian and teacher. She wrote several books on the history of everyday Brazilian people during the colonial, imperial and Republican periods.
Sheila Maureen Bisilliat is an English-born Brazilian photographer.
References
- ↑ RAUSCHENBERG, Christopher "Blue Sky 05/06", Portland:Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, 2006 ISBN 0-931194-10-5, pg. 91 a 95
- ↑ GUERREIRO, Hugo "Favelas: Arquitectura da sobrevivência - fotografias de Pedro Lobo", Estremoz: Camara Municipal de Estremoz, 2009.CFUL/INCM.
- ↑ http://www.3m1arte.com/3mais1/index.php?p=3&expoinfo=19&imagens
- ↑ http://www.artinstitutes.edu/charleston/news-and-events/the-art-institute-of-charleston-hosts-its-first-international-artist-in-residence-pedro-lobo-2803110.aspx
- ↑ BISILLIAT, Maureen (org.) "Aqui dentro, páginas de uma memória: Carandiru" São Paulo: Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo: Fundação Memorial da América Latina, 2003, ISBN 857060-194-8, pg. 259
- ↑ revista PHOTO MAGAZINE, ano 4, n, 21, agosto setembro 2008, pg. 26
