55SP launches issue of Glu-Glu iconic work of artist Amelia Toledo

Multiple Sculpture "Glu-Glu", created in 1968 55SP is launched in the space that opens to the public on 10 of May and goes to the JustLX fair in Portugal São Paulo, April 2018 – The 55SP launches on 10 May a limited edition of the iconic sculpture in glass and liquid with surfactant … Read more

Exhibition unveils the art of Portinari at Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro

They will be displayed 70 studies and models of the works of the plastic artist who was recognized for portraying social inequalities After going through Recife, Salvador and Curitiba and be seen by an audience of around 50 thousand people, Rio comes to the unprecedented exhibition “Portinari – The construction of a work” which will stay in … Read more

Brigida Baltar was the winner of Marcos Amaro Art Award

Initiative was a partnership between Fundação Marcos Amaro and SP-Arte Plastic artist Brígida Baltar, Nara Roesler Gallery, It was the winner of Marcos Amaro Art Award, what happened on 12 April, during the SP-Arte. The award was a partnership between the Marcos Amaro Foundation and the organizing entity … Read more

Lionel Falcon “The art of photography Pets” by Edmundo Cavalcanti

“All things of creation are children of the Father and brothers of man… God wants us to help animals, if you need help.” – St. Francis of Assisi Dear readers, this matter is somewhat different from all other, where usually interview artists. "Shooting is also an art". Browsing through my social networks, … Read more

XXXII Salon of Plastic Arts Arceburgo - Minas Gerais by Rosangela Vig

In the picture I ask myself – trace trace – sometimes I paint cloud, sometimes I paint tree… sometimes I paint myself with things that I no longer even remember… or things that don't exist but that one day will exist… and, read this, that seek – little by little – my eternal likeness, … Read more

Gigi Monteiro and Claudio Cupertino receive Raffaello Award, Italy

The photographer and artist represent Brazil in a prize created by the Italian twins Salvatore Russo and Francesco Saverio Russo São Paulo, April 2017 - The Sao Paulo photographer Gigi Monteiro and mining artist Claudio Cupertino will represent Brazil in one of the main prizes of art in Italy. This is the Raffaello Award, … Read more

55SP continues until day 27 with works of the Platform Jacaranda

Show has works by artists like Vik Muniz, Nuno Ramos and Luiz Zerbini at affordable prices São Paulo, April 2018 – Until the next day 27 April, Friday, the public may know the 25 works in the group exhibition Jacaranda Issues in the new exhibition space of 55SP (See hours of operation below). And the … Read more

“Some Notes on the Legacy Artistic Düher” by Juliana Vannucchi

Fig. 1 – Knight, Death and Devil, featured, 1513. Albrecht Düher. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rosenwald Collection. "More clearly speaking, skull, It seems to-me, expresses death, the end that is exposed in the way that man travels ". – Juliana Vannucchi.

Dear readers, below, gladly share with you the key insights I had with the paintings of Düher, how they affected me aesthetically and why so much intrigue me every time that they appreciate and give myself. First of all, dare I say that perhaps Düher was the most extraordinary painter of … Read more

“The works of William Blake in Counterpoint with Reason” by Juliana Vannucchi

Fig. 1 – The Circle of the Corrupt Officials; the Devils Tormenting Ciampolo, 1827. William Blake. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rosenwald Collection. "A Arte, according to him (Blake), intuitive knowledge is not of individual things, but the eternal and superhuman forces of creation ". (ARGAN, 1988, p. 35).

William Blake was a painter and English poet, that fits and is usually associated with Romanticism (more specifically, as a pre-romantic), While all of their production has also aspects belonging to Symbolism. Blake was eccentric. His productions have been widely rejected during the period in which they were created, because they were beyond any stylistic pattern … Read more

First Traces of Modern Art – Symbolism by Rosângela Vig

Fig. 13 – Edvard Munch: Vampire II, 1895-1902, lithograph, 380-387 x 550-560 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo. Photo © Munch Museum.

You can also listen to this article in the voice of own Plastic Artist Rosângela Vig: When Ishmalia became insane, She stood dreaming in the tower… She saw a moon in the sky, She saw another one in the sea. In the dream she lost herself, She bathed in the moonlight… She wanted to go up to heaven, And to go down to the sea… And, in her madness, In … Read more