The artist open up a deep discussion on Western painting legacy and its heritage in Brazil — especially the history of
Brazilian academic art seeded by the Imperial Fine Arts Academy (Academia Imperial de Belas Artes) founded in 1816 in Rio, capital of the former Colony, by french masters and established there under the orders of King Dom João VI of Portugal.
Based on this the artist opens up a deep discussion on Western painting legacy and its heritage in Brazil - especially the history of
Brazilian academic art seeded by the Imperial Fine Arts Academy (Academia Imperial de Belas Artes) which was founded in 1816 in Rio, capital of the former Colony, by French masters and established under the orders of King Dom João VI of Portugal.
Not exact matches
We contacted
Brazilian artists and curators whom we already knew and asked them to introduce us to the
Brazilian art world, and then we met critics, independent curators, museum curators, journalists, editors of magazines, residency programme managers,
academics,
art lovers, gallerists and collectors, always asking the same questions on our quest to find the best of the new generation of young artists who are emerging in the
Brazilian art world.
After a brief geometrical phase in Hamburg, and inspired by her last
academic teacher at the Hamburg
Art College, the
Brazilian op artist Almir Mavignier, it was in New York that Hanne Darboven found her characteristic drawing and writing «system»: «In New York, I tried to find something that I could work on for my whole life.