Gabriel Rodrigues

I lived my childhood in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil, the city where I was born, known for its universities and for its air base, however it has its Catholic side, full of monasteries, chapels and churches. I studied part of my school life in Catholic schools where I was constantly encouraged to visit such places and there I had contact with classical art. Sculptures and paintings as they should be, in their highest state. Later, at the School of Arts and Design, in the art history and philosophy of art classes, I understood better about the grate past of the arts, which strangely was no longer seen, when arriving in the modern and avant-garde periods, as in every art schools, were tried at all costs to inject huge doses of relativization of beauty. However, despite being young and with few true convictions, I did not buy this speech and reaffirmed my position that there are arts higher than others and that sublime beauty is not related to personal taste.

After years in digital design work, I was once again impacted by art, but it wouldn't be in a positive way like I was in school, but mainly because of the sadness when seeing galleries, biennials and exhibitions full of supposed arts without talent, technique and lof...

School of Arts and Design: Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design - UFPel - 2009;

Atelier at Home Course - Paulo Frade Classical Painting School - 2021;

New Master Academy:
Art Anatomy for Beginners - Steve Huston - 2022;
Creative Composition - Steve Huston - 2022;
Dynamic Gesture Drawing - Glenn Vilppu - 2022;

14th Affresco Gallery Virtual Collective Exhibition