Contemporary Art, Optical Art – Op Art, by Rosângela Vig

Fig. 1 - Alexander Calder, Folding with Red Disc, Castle Square, Stuttgart, Germany 1973. Photo: Rufus46, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

You can also listen to this article in the voice of own Plastic Artist Rosângela Vig: The vulgar believe that it is easy to escape reality, when it's the hardest in the world. It is easy to say or paint something that is completely meaningless., that is intelligible or null: it will suffice to queue nonsense words, or trace … Read more

Modern Art – Expressionism in Brazil – Portinari o Pintor e o Poeta, by Rosângela Vig

Fig. 1 – Discovery of Earth, 1941, Tempera with Glued Support on black paper, 28,6 x 29 cm. Rights João Candido Portinari. Photo: Candido Portinari, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

made a stop, one stop for the train to carry coffee, Before, difficult roads, only ox carts transited, taking days and days. After, a house here, another there. (PORTINARI, 2018, p.19) Portinari's Poetry is confused with his Painting and it may be that this excerpt from his poem brings to mind the universe of … Read more

First Traces of Modern Art – Abstract Expressionism in Brazil by Rosângela Vig

Fig. 3 – Manabu Mabe, OSD, 50 x 60 cm, 1989, MB02, Work with certificate, Brazil Gallery. Link to the work.

You can also listen to this article in the voice of own Plastic Artist Rosângela Vig: filling up the conversations, come out of the dimness, jumping, the frogs. The light dazzles them. In a roar that lands, howls the bullfrog: – “my father went to war!” – “It was not!” – “Was!” – “It was not!”. the cooper toad, Watery Parnassian, says: – … Read more

First Traces of Modern Art – Expressionism in Brazil by Rosângela Vig

Fig. 6 – The Discovery of the Earth, Cândido Portinari, Mural Painting in the Library of Congress Building, Washington, 1941. Photo: Candido Portinari, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

You can also listen to this article in the voice of own Plastic Artist Rosângela Vig: my heart feels very sad… While the gray of goose bumps dialogues a lament with the wind… my heart feels very happy! This upturned chill makes you want to smile! And I follow. And I'm feeling, to the restless alacrity of winter, such as … Read more

Modern Art – Abstract Expressionism by Rosângela Vig

Fig. 4 – Untitled, c. 1952-1956, Jackson Pollock, ink on paper, 17 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches, 44,5 x 5x,5 cm. Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY, USA.

You can also listen to this article in the voice of own Plastic Artist Rosângela Vig: You will have heard these expressions or even applied them: ‘Oh, what a glacial painting!’, You have the impression of glacial air coming in through an open window in winter. And our whole body shivers. But a correct application of “tones” and … Read more

collage Analog – Returning full force, by Edmundo Cavalcanti

The use of collage in modern art is huge, as it permeated artistic movements and is now returning with enough force. A digital collage also as a twenty-first century tool is very active in the field of advertising, illustration, animation and other means. Many young artists are masterfully digital art. So that now … Read more

First Traces of Modern Art – Impressionism in Brazil by Rosângela Vig

Fig. 3 – Boy on the Slope, Eliseu Visconti, oil on canvas, 51 x 73 cm, 1889. Private Collection.

You can also listen to this article in the voice of own Plastic Artist Rosângela Vig: Motherland, I throb in you, in your wood, wherever I go! And your perfume and shade and sun and dew! And, in sap, to her cry my voice answers, And I climb from your heart to the sky, from branch to branch! From the final … Read more

Modern Art – Surrealism by Rosângela Vig

Fig. 12 – Salvador Dali, Daddy Longlegs of the Evening Hope!, 1940, oil on canvas, 40,64 cm x 50,8 cm, The Dalí Museum, Present of A. Reynolds & Eleanor Morse. Copyright: Worldwide rights ©Salvador Dalí. Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí (Artists Rights Society), 2017 / In the USA ©Salvador Dalí Museum, Inc. St. Petersburg, FL 2017.

You can also listen to this article in the voice of own Plastic Artist Rosângela Vig: When I look at the starry sky, I find it small. Maybe it was me who grew up, or it was the universe that shrank. Unless both heppened at the same time; (DALI, 2008, p.18) True Art opens its doors when it detaches itself from logic … Read more

Modern Art – Abstractionism by Rosângela Vig

Fig. 4 – Vasily Kandinsky, Little Painting with Yellow (Improvisation), 1914, oil on canvas, 31 x 39 5/8 polegadas (78.7 x 100.6 cm) Framed: 32 3/4 x 41 1/2 x 2 1/2 poleinches.2 x 105.4 x 6.4 cx),cmeatured. Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950-134-103.

You can also listen to this article in the voice of own Plastic Artist Rosângela Vig: Alumbramento I saw the heavens! I saw the skies! Ah this angelic whiteness No sad pejos and without veils! Not a cloud of bitterness comes unsettle the soul. I feel it beautiful… and I feel it pure… I saw snow! I saw snow! Oh, … Read more

Modern Art – Cubism by Rosângela Vig

Fig. 1 – House at the Black Madonna, Museum of Decorative Arts. Prague.eu: The Official Tourist Website for Prague. Photo: Ondrej Kocourek.

You can also listen to this article in the voice of own Plastic Artist Rosângela Vig: Orpheus Admire the remarkable power this noble and commendable online: It is the voice that came from the light resonating What speaks Hermes Trismegistus in his Pimander. 1 (APOLLINAIRE, 1997, p.27) The artist is the knight. Their reins guide our gaze across … Read more