Ferreira Louis Marius

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Ferreira Louis Marius Amorim de Moraes, (born March 13, 1953, in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil) is a modern Brazilian painter and supporter of naïve art. He began his artistic career in 1979 and currently lives and works in Peruíbe, São Paulo, Brazil.

Ferreira

[edit] Life and career

The works of Ferreira depict the images of paradise of Atlantic Forest, its birds, its fountains and its natives. His work press the truth disclosed by limn every day in this region, more precisely in The Juréia-Itatins Ecological Station. Since young, in addition to painting, also attracted interest in music, influenced by that grandfather was conductor and pianist. His mother is also pianist and encouraged to be interested in art. Ferreira, who lived part of her childhood with grandparents, played with the leftovers of canvases and paints which his grandmother, who was painting on porcelain and created small works of painting, offered him. The teens, lived with his parents in São Vicente - coast of São Paulo - and liked to attend a town of fishermen in the region call, Guamium. Spent much of the time in this community, and with the fishermen, many of them caiçaras, learned to make pirogas, entanglement, canoes was learning his craft and fishing techniques. Eventually becoming professional fishermen. While pleased with such activities extracted and earned a living this way, Ferreira has never stopped drawing. Risks and paint scenes from daily life, of landscapes of the seashore, from bars, boats and ports, using what was at hand, charcoal, chalk wax, colored pencil or ink leftovers of the boats used in painting. Later, when the fishing became impossible because of environmental degradation, was working in the port of Santos, and realized it was there that the tourists are interested in his painting style, and then went to paint small canvases with paint acrylic, to sell. The beginning was difficult, but still, realized it could improve, expand their horizons and live of the sale of his artwork. Between 1989 and 1990 already sold their works in the Republic Square in São Paulo, the traditional art fair in that city. In the 90s began to exhibit their work in the gallery Jacques Ardie in São Paulo. The recognition was immediate. Sold all work in their 1st exhibition individual and started to export to the France and United States.

[edit] Exhibitions and Awards

• Solo Exhibitions
  • 1979 São Vicente Yacht Club, São Paulo
  • 1980 Secretary of Culture of São Joao da Boa Vista, São Paulo
  • 1991 Medical Association of Santos, São Paulo
  • 1994 Jacques Ardies Gallery, São Paulo
  • 1997 Jacques Ardies Gallery, São Paulo
  • 2004 Jacques Ardies Gallery, São Paulo
  • 2006 Galerie Jacqueline Bricard, Lourmarin, France
  • 2007 Um Lugar ao Sol Art Gallery, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil

End of Day - Private Collection. In this work, executed in 2007, Ferreira composed with all the reasons that most appreciates and inspires. Fishing craft the life of Caiçara, striking colors of nature, the animals and plants of the Atlantic Forest

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• Prizes
  • 1980 Honorable Mention, Expofarps, University of Art of Santos, São Paulo - Brazil
  • 1991 1st Place, Folklore Art Group, Town Council of Santos, São Paulo - Brazil
  • 1997 first place prize of the jury - Chapel Art Show – São Paulo - Brazil
    • First place in the popular vote - Chapel Art Show – São Paulo - Brazil

[edit] External links

• Gallery of International Naïve Art - Tel Aviv - Israel
• Gallery of International Naïve Art (gina), New York
• Galeria de Arte "Um Lugar ao Sol" - Curitiba - Brazil

[edit] See also

• Museums and Exhibitions
  • Musée d’Art Naïf – Beraut – France
  • Musée de La Civilisation – Quebec – Canada
  • Museum of Art and Culture – Caraguatatuba – São Paulo - Brazil

• Acquis
  • Gallery "Um Lugar ao Sol" – Curitiba – Parana - Brazil
  • Portal Gallery – São Paulo – Brazil
  • Gina Gallery – Tel Aviv – Israel
  • Galerie Jacqueline Bricard – França
  • Galeria Art Factory – São Paulo - Brasil
  • Gina Gallery – Nova York, USA

• Bibliography
  • Ferreira One in Paradise Screens - Oscar D'Ambrosio - Noovha America Publisher (Ed. 2008-Brazil)
  • Art in Brazil – Catalog Julio Lousada-Vol. 3/405, 4/394 e 6b/391
  • Naïf Art in Brasil – Publishing Company of the Arts
  • The Naive World – Gina Gallery - Tel Aviv-Israel (Ed. de 2005/06/07)