Real Brazilian Portuguese & Culture
Balloon Decorating – A Brazilian Specialty There are some things that Brazilians just do better than other people, cleaning, for example. And soccer. And now this. Brazilians have some serious balloon decorating skills. In fact, I can’t think of a culture that makes more use of balloons as a party decoration. The use of balloons [...]
Tarsila do Amaral – Brazilian Painter One of the most amazing painters to come out of Brazil was certainly Tarsila do Amaral. Born to a wealthy coffee family from inland São Paulo, her high came not from caffeine, but from art. She was central to the Modernista movement of the 1920′s that swept the Brazilian [...]
Famous Brazilian Artists I have previously written posts about two very famous contemporary Brazilian artists: Romero Britto and Vik Muniz. Although these two names are now well-known internationally, what about the Brazilian artists who came before them? Brazil is finally emerging out of third world status and is on the brink of becoming a major [...]
I am constantly coming across really cool Brazilian graffiti. I really love graffiti art, so I’m creating this post so that I can add pictures of graffiti in Brazil as I find them. Feel free to send me your pics (along with some information) so that I can put them up too! Cheers. [...]
Anonymous Street Artist “JR” Gives A Face To Brazilian Favelas Here is a beautiful installation by graffiti artist JR in Brazil. This group effort is part of a larger project to document the lives of women living in poverty worldwide. JR is the name of a photographer and artist whose identity is unconfirmed. JR’s Women Are Heroes trailer
This Week’s NYT Magazine Profiles Brazilian Artist Vik Muniz I first learned about Vik Muniz, the highly successful New York-based Brazilian artist, when I saw Waste Land, the documentary about Muniz that won the Public Award in the Sundance Independent Film Festival and shows his work with garbage pickers in Jardim Gramacho, the largest landfill of [...]
Artist in Brazil Turns Wall into World’s Largest Post-it Stop-Motion Video Via Dvice… What does the world’s largest stop-motion video made with Post-its look like? It looks something like this massive mural made with over 350,000 of the colorful sticky notes and carefully “animated” over five months. As part of an advertising campaign for Melissa, a new [...]
Romero Britto – Brazilian Artist Profile I was introduced to Britto about 5 years ago while I was still living in Miami, and even though he had not yet become a household name, I remember it being extremely obvious at the time that this guy was going big or going home. For one thing, Romero [...]
Photography: Brazil in Old Photos Here are some really cool old photos of Brazil that I had never seen before. Enjoy!…
The story of Ayrton Senna is so amazing! I just love this guy, he had such a good heart! I can’t wait to see this! Ayrton Senna: Drive fast, Leave Sparks (Via The Economist) AT THE time of his death at age 34, Ayrton Senna da Silva was already being called one of the greatest Formula [...]
Thanks Deep Brazil for digging up these old postcards depicting the evolution of Florianoplis, Santa Catarina. I loved seeing these, I recognize these spots from when I used to live there!
Hey, that’s awesome! The mythic Bob Dylan went to Brazil to paint favelas, of course, and who knows what else. Not sure about quality of the paintings (or whether that matters, really). Now the “Brazil Series” is in exhibition at the Denmark National Gallery. Bob Dylan’s new series reflects the settings and people he [...]
MASP stands for Museu de Arte de São Paulo (São Paulo Museum of Art) and it is located on 1578 Paulista Ave. in São Paulo. It is undoubtedly one of the trademarks of the city. It is a 1968 concrete and glass structure designed by architect Lina Bo Bardi. The building’s most distinctive feature is the 243 [...]
