Antônio Bandeira

Bandeira started his career been a autodidactic and painting scenes of his hometown Fortaleza, in which the painter privileged the marginal populations and the bohemian. By 1945, the artist moves to Rio de Janeiro, where he was well received and soon recognized. In this same year, Bandeira won by the French Embassy a scholarship at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris. In the end of the 1940’, the artist adhered to the abstract expressionism when, living in France, he was working together with the artists Camille Bryen and Wolls. From 1946, Bandeira alternated seasons of work between Paris and Rio de Janeiro, exposing and selling his works both in Europe and Brazil.

During the 1950’ and the 1960’, Bandeira developed his painting style, which combined drippings of ink with lines that made allusion to shapes like trees and boats. The artist was an important exponent of what in Brazil was conventionally called "informal abstractionism", having been recognized by the market and several times awarded.

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