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OSCAR ARARIPE
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Gli Innamorati - Lovers - Les Amouresses |
Il Bagatto - The Magician - O Ferreiro |
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Il Carro - The Carriot - Coche |
Il Diavolo - The Devil - Le Diable |
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La Luna - The Moon - A Lua |
La Forza - The Strength - A Força |
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MISURE: 1.10 m x 1.50m
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TECNICA: Acrilico su tela
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acrilico sobre tela
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acrylics on synthetic canvas
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Contatta l'artista - Artist contact
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Breve scheda dell'autore
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Oscar Araripe
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was already internationally recognized and acclaimed as an
important Brazilian writer, educator, and social and ecological activist
well before he turned his talents to painting. With almost 100 exhibitions
to his credit, Araripe continues to reinvent the art of painting, not only
through his spontaneous and unusual brush strokes and colours, but also via
his use of unconventional materials ranging from delicate tracing paper to
large-scale public works made of weatherproof synthetic canvases (sail
clouth) supported by sturdy tubular structures.
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About my tarot - My dream was to paint a Tarot Cards which had the image of another time and
which was sufficiently liberating to overcame the erudition of the old culture, and anarchic enough to be used as pure talent.
I had Just finished writing a literary trilogy - a good thirty years of intense labour - when, having already started painting, one fine day, a
beautiful magician unexpectedly revealed to me for the first time the 22 cards of the Major Arcanics from the Marseilles Tarot Pack.
Immediately, I was struck with the idea of a book, a silent book. For the next twenty or
twenty two minutes I painted it, arranging it according to the Cardinal
Points, and dividing it into 7 Celestial Card, 13 Terrestial Cards, 1 'Binding' Card - The Devil, and 2 outside the Deck (the Hanging man and the
Fool). It is clear that I didn't have an exact idea of what I was doing - The
whole process was rapid and completly spontaneous and only, little by little, did I perceive what I wanted from the ancient images; the first and
oldest capable of manifesting the 'essence' common to all things, and the
way these alchemical visions can be realised without any great surprise. Thus the cards would never lie - and people could leave them. By pure
talent!
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Live and work in Brasil.
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Short author profile
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- Oscar Araripe
- O meu sonho foi pintar um tarot que tivesse a imagem do outro tempo e que fosse libertário ao extremo de superar as erudições da velha cultura e anárquico ao ponto de poder ser usado como puro talento.
Eu havia justo concluido uma trilogia literária de uns bons 30 anos de intenso labor, quando, já pintando, um belo dia, inesperadamente, uma bela maga me mostrou pela primeira vez os 22 Arcanos Maiores do Tarot (de Marseille). Imediatamente, a idéia de um livro de imagens, um livro por assim dizer "calado", me arrebatou - e eu o pintei em 20, 22 minutos; o arrumando conforme os pontos cardeais e o dividindo em 7 Cartas Celestes (barra e fundo azul), 13 Terrenas (barra e fundo preto), 1 ligação (Le Diable) e 2 fora do baralho (O Enforcado e O
Louco).
É claro que eu não tinha, em exato, a idéia do que estava fazendo - foi tudo muito espontâneo e rápido; e só aos poucos fui percebendo que quisera das velhas imagens a mais antiga e primeira e que pudesse ainda viver a substância comum a todos os seres; de modo que as coisas alquímicas pudessem se realizar sem grandes espantos.
Assim as cartas não mentiriam jamais - e as pessoas poderiam até deixá-las. Por puro talento
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sito ufficiale dell'artista - artist site
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www.oscarararipe.com.br
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