In her vibrant works, the Brazilian painter Beatriz Milhazes fuses two very different worldviews. Her abstract compositions, which can be seen in a line with modernist masters from Henri Matisse to Bridget Riley, are saturated with the colors and light of her native country. Her paintings are strewn with symbols of everyday life in Brazil, invoking carnival, traditional craftsmanship, and motifs from baroque to pop, all choreographed in an exuberant visual rhythm. The colorful atmosphere has an irresistible exotic allure, but as in the works of Paul Gauguin, we find a broken paradise in which darker, more melancholic tones resonate, both in the promises of tropical life and those of modernist abstraction.
 
Publisher ? : ? TASCHEN; Multilingual edition (April 30, 2021)
Language ? : ? Multilingual
Hardcover ? : ? 528 pages
ISBN-10 ? : ? 3836584638
ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-3836584630
Item Weight ? : ? 8.44 pounds
Dimensions ? : ? 10.35 x 2.17 x 13.58 inches