FIVE SEASONS “Pomeriggio” Painting

In this group of paintings, I depict elements of nature. My theme revolves around the birds and flowers of the Cerrado, as well as native fishes of the Amazon: Sarro (corydoras sp), Acará Açu (Astronotus spp), and birds such as Picapau (colaptes campestris), Araçari (Pteroglossus), Arara (Ara ararauna), Tucani (Ramphastos), and critically endangered primates like the Black Tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus). My inspiration comes from the chromatic coincidences found in the paintings of Sonia Delaunay (a pioneer of European modernism and abstract art in the early 20th century) and Mestre Ataíde, a painter and sculptor from the Brazilian Baroque period who lived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. I designed the figures of the birds and flowers as elements to be filled with layers of tempera. Previously to the tint application on the canvas, I do a color survey in some of these authors particular work and create a reference diagram. Therefore, I build color relationships, use the diluted pigment in the solvent matter, apply color in some regions, like graphic maps, until the saturation limit, until the compaction is almost complete, layer by layer. Differently than the use of tempera paint in the work of the Italian-Brazilian chromatist and abstract painter Alfredo Volpi, who used to apply diluted color in a few layers, leaving the luminous white of the canvas appear behind. I transform figures to the shape of flowers, fishes and birds in the graphic regions where I apply color, like maps to be filled. This particular format, the non realistic representation of flowers, fishes and birds, originated from my long research about William Morris and Wenzel Peter work, my most recent set of paintings theme.

Painting:Tempera on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:59.1 W x 59.1 H x 0.8 D in

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