Beatriz Milhazes

Beatriz Milhazes is a print maker, painter and collage artist, who was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1060. She is well known for using bright and vibrant colours in her work. Her work is associated with patterns and decoration movement. It is inspired by Brazilian culture imagery. She went to the School of Visual Arts in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil from 1980 to 1982 and the four years later she taught and co-ordinated activities there.

She has been working in a studio in Brazil since 1987, where she got inspired, to create the leaf like patterns in her art, by the botanical garden near the studio. She also has other influences such as architects and modernist painters. She incorporates everyday materials that have baroque patterns in them. Her work mostly is large, has bold colours, has silk screened shapes and has a lot of collage. Her work is print based. This is because printing gives the image a smooth finish whereas when using a brush you can see the stocks.

Here are a few images of her work:

I like how she uses printing techniques (hand-made art technique) to create vivid coloured art that looks mechanically produced. This is one of the aspects of her artwork that have influenced me to use Indian ink to create bold solid coloured patterns. Its also refreshing to see how she has taken the inspiration of her culture and environment (nature) in which she surrounds herself, to create her art in a similar manner to me. 

Refrences: 

Artnet.(2018).Beatriz Milhazes.[Online].[Accessed:13 Feb 2018].Available: https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.collageplatform.com.prod/image_cache/1010x580_fit/599f12405a4091c6048b4568/c774342b83ce2f74c4d608445a14e2eb.jpg

Jame Cohan.(2016).Beatriz Milhazes.[Online].[Accessed: 13 Feb 2018].Available: http://www.jamescohan.com/artists/beatriz-milhazes