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Carioca Rocket on the Moon
Waldomiro de Deus1966
Museu de Folclore Edison Carneiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The painting belongs to a group of works of the artist clearly inspired by the "Space Race" (1955-1975). This dispute for the occupation of space fought between the USA and USSR during the Cold War was followed by the whole world and yielded reports, studies, debates, and many "narratives". And Waldomiro narrates the facts with complete freedom.
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Details
- Title: Carioca Rocket on the Moon
- Creator: Waldomiro de Deus
- Date Created: 1966
- Location: Osasco, SP
- Physical Dimensions: 75.9 x 38.5 in
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Photo Credit: Francisco Moreira da Costa
- About Creator: Waldomiro de Deus Souza was born in 1944, in Itagibá, in the backlands of Bahia. At the age of 14, he went alone to São Paulo, where he lived on the streets, worked as a gardener and bricklayer's helper, until he was discovered at the I Brazilian Art Fair, in 1962, in Água Branca. Four years later, he participated in the I National Biennial of Plastic Arts in Salvador (BA) and, the following year, in the IX Bienal of São Paulo. His career then took off and, in 50 years of painting, he had 70 individual exhibitions in Brazil and abroad. He lives in Goiânia (GO).
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