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In order to analyze more carefully Manoel Costa's work,
one needs to pay close attention to his figures.
The artist, over the years, has been surrounded with
innumerable landscapes, scenes portraying man in his
different chores. In this context arise activities demonstrating
the Brazilian worker and, with him, the fauna, flora,
happiness, dangers, progress and sadness.
At the start, the first contact with his works attract
the onlooker to the figures, putting him in touch with
the environment, where the artist's force seems to prevail.
Manoel Costa's style tends toward a geometrizing structure.
They are constructions comprised not merely of constant
forms but also of the mastery of materials and instruments.
The colors, the definition of the contours, the porous
texture, make up Manoel Costa's language. They are tonics
that indicate the artist's style, and are complemented
by the presence of compact colors, transmitting a sometimes
Impressionist vision. In this sense, we can underscore,
in everything, figures containing hardly any caricaturism,
where feelings come out clearly in the faces created
or in the sensitivity of the artist.
His abstract phase is tense and reveals prior segments,
in a necessary and revealing rupture. In the first works
one can see magic getting away from reality. The artist
opts for a nearly fantasy world. His abstractionism
follow nearly the same course. This initial procedure
is modified by years of observing a present world, synthesizing
images and colors.
Here is the artist faced with choices, in a constant
passion with the universe.
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