Art and life.
Lúcio Carvalho.
Untitled.
Year: 2015
Technique: Acrylic on canvas.
Screen size: 50 x 50 cm.
Signature: lower right corner.
Formation.
The harmonious living with your parents, uncles, aunts, cousins ​​and sister influenced his training and his character. When very young, he thought about becoming a doctor, but, still fulfilling his military service, he opted for nursing, intermediate path that you provided better conditions to build family and at the same time follow the artistic path.
Little known, Lucio Carvalho is an artist whose production stands out for its experimental and innovative character. With works spread throughout Brazil and abroad, following the passion for what it does, with brushstrokes that only he can understand the value and get the maximum result using with absolute mastery, Lúcio Carvalho produces unparalleled expression of work and impossible not to be noticed due applying superimposed layers of ink in order to achieve the desired effect.
Not only does the color look sometimes applied pure, his art includes other issues. But never liked to comment on them. Say everything you think about your art, is now exposed to a certain extent on their screens. What matters is what people feel, how they are affected, and what they can assimilate it all.
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Title: Circus.
Year: 2015.
Technique: Acrylic on canvas.
Screen size: 50 x 50 cm.
Signature: lower right corner.
Biography.
Who is Lúcio Carvalho.
José Lúcio Azevedo de Carvalho, is a painter, designer and Brazilian philatelist. Self-taught, born in the city of Rio de Janeiro, in the sub-district of Comari Village in Campo Grande on November 01, 1958, with the parents, José Sabino Carvalho Neto and Lucy Azevedo Carvalho.
Around his birth, held on a rainy day at the residence of his parents lying on the platter of Comari Street Road with Crankshaft comment that was a breech delivery, difficult and time consuming, the midwife called Manuela, devoted his attention saving him and his mother's death.
Their involvement with the mystique of lines, colors and brightness of the light occurred at thirteen or fourteen, when beholding the uncle of a friend painting some canvases, influenced and with great difficulty to acquire study materials because of the small salary tailor father started in the world of fine arts reading magazines and art history books and drawing fruits, vegetables, objects and magazine cover pictures in the Disny comics.
In 1977, led by a friend, he began his studies of painting at Casa Cruz in the center of Campo Grande, the place where the following year, with two small landscapes, held its first press sample.
As was natural to happen, his artistic career began with the landscape painting and still life. The tables that stage, unfortunately not preserved, signed as Lucius had mostly vases with flowers, rural universe, countryside and historic towns. Small rereading the oils, painted from photos of art magazines viewing.
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His self-education consists of much effort, all it comes from your intuition combined with reading and viewing videos.
According to Jacqueline Rema Bordeaux, using a palette of soft colors, influenced by the art inspired by urban architecture, Lúcio Carvalho creates painting with geometric shapes, bright colors that can not be ignored by the viewer.
In his universe of tasks, some lines are sufficient to form an atmosphere of effects. The excitement is always palpable and not far sometimes the singular art. It is in color and form that Lúcio Carvalho takes advantage of the dynamism of the screen and slowly seems to emerge a new world.
What he likes most is to look at the white screen and not think, release emotions and paint without attempting anything, feathers let everything flow. The resulting images, produced in true emotions of the soul, put in great evidence the extraordinary sensitivity and deep own artist emotionality, which may qualify you as the sole author of its kind. All well and frees up the mind and heart. As a kind of erupting volcano, its creation comes to life, source that inspires and creates an inner dialogue with the artist himself and the subject to perform, creating harmony of lines and figures whose likeness becomes more true true abroad.
Original, unpublished and special art expressed by Lúcio Carvalho, experience fruit and experiments designed to achieve the primary objective of which is the love of art and life, stands out for its elegance the sublime refinement. The specificity of the screens which uses the medium, let you perform harmonious works, intoxicated for certain celestial aspects.
In his works we find his great sensitivity and his watchful eye, cheerful, sensitive and special. Each has a characteristic and fundamental identity, unique and rare that distinguishes and identifies their creativity and imagination, elements that express your personality and extol their qualities.
Free from any references of his first paintings conventional techniques, abstract themes, become a strong message of immense love and artistic expressions characterized by works done naturally, with admirable bravery. Processing agent within a single routine, his works have a real touch of thick, class and suggestions, thanks to his personal and strong personality, its artistic quality is realized concretely
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Influences.
Incorporating important tools necessary for your work moves by several trends, sometimes passing through the Unformalism, Neoplasticism and Neoconcretismo, now by futurism, Cubism and Suprematism. These trends in very important to the development of your artistic expression, the released of the conventional techniques of landscapes and allowed get more spirit of art.
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Return.
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The painting has always been very present in his life and has played over the years, a great role. But due to several factors that have emerged, Lúcio Carvalho stopped painting for a few years. However, encouraged by his sister and also artist Lucia Carvalho, in mid 2013 he regained activity and its gallery of artistic creations, mostly in acrylic on canvas, it has accumulated several dozen, and of course he would like to have more time to paint, however, the commitments and the day to day responsibilities fill your time. Also, is spending the spare time designing, creating, and even when not painting, his mind not to think about the works that follow.
It should be added for clarity that relying mainly on the language of the heart, experience fruit and experiments designed to achieve its main objectives, Lúcio Carvalho seeks passionately to make their living and vital works, seek perfection of lines and colors, and tries to improve on this long walk.
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As he sees the digital age.
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In a world where personal creativity becomes increasingly important and where each person needs to do more choices than was imaginable for 30 or 40 years, it is imperative to state that with social networks, the relationship with the public ends up becoming next and much help to publicize the work. However, when asked about this matter, stating that the proximity to the public in galleries or elsewhere expository, remains paramount for any artist
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Goals and objectives in relation to art.
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To continue its development and leave something positive in people, Lúcio Carvalho says it is necessary to evolve and share with the world.
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Accustomed to the aesthetic, with its own ideas, concluding that abstraction reflects the legitimate artistic language, in the 1980s also developed a taste for photography and was integrated into the abstract In this period, signing; Lucio Carvalho followed by Rio and date his paintings has changed and began to conquer their own space.
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Description of your work.
Example of strength, of great talent, remarkable power to feel and transmit back to the abstract themes, Lúcio Carvalho has works that move between various trends and reproduce sincerely unmatched nuances of emotional memories.
Due to various influences, the media and the trends that uses change from one painting to another. For him, what matters is to express through the colors and shapes their feelings and desires, is a search for materializing an idea, a mixture of pleasure and pain.
What draws the most attention in his art is the freedom to experience the color and shape. Always extrapolate procedures, wander without limits for all possibilities.
As he says, "without considering the limits of lines, light and color are active and necessary elements, beauty that can not be faked. The gestures and expressions are combined. The rhythmic dynamism, harmonious and vivid colors, have the aim of stimulating sensations and emotions.
The streets inspires, concentrate, observe the colors of the walls and walls of houses and seeks to bring them to your work without a central direction, reflect your mood and your child's perspective.
Driven by emotions, unpredictable, away from all that is visible and tangible, his art comes from the sensitivity of human beings to express their emotions and feelings.
Their marginal condition regarding the factors of influence, seems to facilitate the flourishing of his inventiveness and spontaneity, born of artistic impulse itself, given the creative activity, draws our attention by fine features, the combination of images and colors.
The freedom to explore their ideas, have not the slightest commitment to represent the apparent reality; concrete.
Making art is to invent something that pleases the eyes. he says.
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