Oscar Araripe / Brazilian artist and poet. With residence, studio, gallery and Foundation in Tiradentes, Minas Gerais, Oscar Araripe www.oscarararipe.com.br born in Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro in July 1941. The father and me Ceará Gacho soon went to live in the neighborhood of proletrio Encantado, where his father, physician, EAME, teacher, practicing their professions. This poca the author recalls the harsh echoes of the war - diphtheria, car gasognio the START of the misery that fell upon hmuito the peoples of the world. Soon Porm, discovers the joys of a suburban childhood and loose, along with fruit trees and beautiful hills and soccer fields. There, in those yards, he learns the winds for kite flying, the taste of fortune audcia ally, sociability, self-contained, the great beauty of the small. And the great. The universe in marble. LJlio Verne, Robin Hood, Robinson Cruse, The Three Musketeers, the heroes of American comic books. The most beautiful pictures I've seen in comics. Many of learn to exercise my gestures and flying kites making - would say. Then suddenly, his parents moved to Ipanema and Oscar Araripe skips stones Arpoador, frequents the beach and drinking beer at Devil Rafters. Ipanema before the Girl: 60 years, and politics that seems to take care of everything, seems able to save own life. The author goes to the National Law School. Sobrevmo 64 military coup. Part of Caco-Free. revoked. He travels to the United States with a scholarship from the Interamerican University Foundation, 66 and 68. Frequents seminars at Harvard, and his experiences convulsed the campus. The same estconvulsionada America: the Vietnam war struggle for civil rights. Araripe interested in the theater. Write an essay on the contemporary American theater, focusing on Tennessee Williams. Wins Trip France. Back to Brazil. Translates Peter Brooks, The Theatre and its space, for Editora Vozes. Fits and performs in Ouro Preto, Maria Fernanda and Othon Bastos, The Ballads of Inconfidncia of Cecilia Meireles. Writes The Post's Transilvnia, theatrical satire in three acts. punished by the Federal Censorship episdio that originates in the Strike of the Theatre. Interested in the human person. Fight the AP test and write the brief introductory study on personality, which is worth a scholarship at the University PrDeo in Rome. Aescreve for Brazilian publications. Travels through Europe. Organize, with others, marched in Rome against the AI ??5. Back in Brazil, 1969. theater critic, cultural editorialist, columnist, and editor of the Correio da Manh Reporters, Newspapers and last time in Brazil. Editor, with Augusto Rodrigues, the journal Art and Education. founding member of the International Society of Teach Across the Art (INSEA). Traveling at the invitation Polna, Germany, China. China Publishes: Pragmatism possible Artenova Publishing, achieved great success. 1975 - cited in the bibliography of the New Aurlio dictionary. Let journalism. Makes literature. entry in the Encyclopedia of Literature Afrnio Coutinho. Participates in Poemao, Roberto Moriconi, at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. Publishes Maria in the Land of My Eyes, by Editora Rocco, with a preface and Antnio Houaiss Eduardo Portella. 1976 - Araripe Oscar goes to live for 13 years in Lookout, Ontario. 1982 - Publishes Martha, and I Jpiter by Editora Marco Zero, with a preface MRCI Souza. His says Marcelo Rubens Paiva, on View in August 1983: "A love letter to nature and especially to women." 1984 - I Write PROM, which Amazon, inspired prose finally with 450 pages, and which finishes his trilogy literria. How calgrafo and draws 12 "Transcription visions" of rock inscriptions from Brazil, which he calls Pillars. This concludes the pillar poca Oui Oui Xing-Xiang, 500 images. 1988 - Gallery in Experi Olvia Kann, Ipanema, Landscape and The Pillar of Areios, presented by Jean Boghici. "I put those on the table more than two hundred drawings, made with an incredible mix of materials - acrylic, pastel, industrial paint, pen and ink, markers - unusual on a baking sheet. I was passing one by one like pages of a book. The fao that Come with the text on the absurd, after Oscar Araripe, author and animator theatrical character of 64 and 68, who authored a successful book about China and novelist since 1975, draws and paints a just as he writes in a stream s. And, I must confess, was a delirious journey as if grimace as I am, had made my first trip "- Frederico Moraes says. Araripe Oscar has contributed to the Renovation of the painting, both for its original color dash, Spont neo and unusual, as the use of manmade fabric (nautical sail) and tubular structures such as frame and support, enabling it to continuously exposed to air and directly to the general public. So much appreciated as well m their beaks and pen-and-paintings on vellum and laser film. Opening new spaces for painting, exposed in 1991, in Brasilia, at Sala Villa-Lobos and the National Theatre in 1992, at Arpoador in Rio, The Pillar of Uaups under the auspcios Rio Art. His murals on Tiradentes, shown in April 1992, simultaneously in the Republic Museum, in Rio and in the courtyard of the Museum Inconfidncia in Ouro Preto, during the celebrations of Bicentenrio were then in the Museum Mineiro, in Belo Horizonte. Also in 1992, exposed Pipas, Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil in Rio, and in June in the Garden botanist, Extina Never shows Include in Eco-92 and seen by estimated PUBLIC of 2 million people. In July 1993, reopened the Winter Festival in Ouro Preto, exposed Kites of Freedom and the Praça Tiradentes, in December, Nativity in the little Church of Oscar Niemeyer in Brasilia, where you can see the beautiful paintings miner great painter Alberto da Veiga Guignard. Also in 1993 paints Ouro Preto, exposing 16 screens Foundation in Art in Black and Gold Villa Riso, Rio de Janeiro "Nobody painted Ouro Preto prettier than him, to radiant - and it looks easy to find the brightness down Weight of History "- says Gustavo Plaza on the River Weeding His landscapes, flora, animals, erotic, and also his transcription of the envisioned archaic art is deserving of the attention devoted names of the critique of journalism and culture, such as Frederico Moraes, Jean Boghici Alberto Beuttnmuller, Walmir Ayala, Marzago Augusto, Luis Galdino, Milton Ribeiro, Marcio Cotrim, Fernando Lemos, Mario Margutti, of Tertullian Passos, Marylka Mendes, John Bosco Teixeira de Castro, Rubens Arajo, Hlio Carneiro, Gustavo Plaza, JosGeraldo Heleno, Wilson Lee, Oyama Alencar, Palhares Jr., Cherlnyo Barros de Castro, Odail Gomes, Manuel Noriega and Vicente Garcia Botin. His work was reviewed by Antnio literria Houaiss Aurlio Buarque de Holanda, Eduardo Portela, Moreira da JosPaulo Fonseca, Vladimir Palmeira, Miguel Paiva, Ricardo A. Setti and MRCI Souza. "Their locations, their way of life, his work throughout harmnico a competent, the right to compete for this unusual and happy overflow truly fantastic, extraordinary, that his painting reveals" - says Lee Wilson . In March of 1994 personal gallery opens in Tiradentes - MG, where they will reside. In April, during July. anniversary of FUNRES, expe Tiradentes, the Courageous Lieutenant in So Joo Del Rei in July, opening in July. Winter Cultural experience Pipas de So Joo, at various points in the city. In March of 1995 held an interactive painting with the children of Tiradentes, during the Cultural Workshop, UFMG, exhibiting Day and night, outdoors, on Emancipation Square. In July opens the show Tiradentes, the Little Village in the old Forum, exhibiting 15 large canvases on the lovely little town. In December of that year paints So Joo Del Rey, exhibiting 14 paintings at the Regional Museum. In 99 turns to the sea and paints Long Island, off the coast, and San Simeon, Central Coast of California, USA. In 2000 Dana experience of anteaters, wins the World Art Award of Excellence, the ArtSpace2000, invited as an exhibitor at Art on Paper 2000 World Festival in Kranj, Eslovnia; have your site included of the 100 Top Art Sites and won dozens of international art prizes. In July and August 2001 experience at the Museum of Porto Seguro, Sea, south of Bahia. In November, invited by TriAmericas.com to exhibit Horse of America at Lincoln Center in New York and Entities of America, the Paul Robeson University of New Jersey, USA. In 2002 the City Historical stadium opens in Porto Seguro, Bahia, where he lived for four years, in which poca ovdeo Oscar Araripe of Csar Tolentino and Marine Ali, wins the Fifth Film Festival Tiradentes, MG and subsequently receives various other awards at festivals in Brazil and abroad. In 2003 invited to the Fourth Biennial of Florence, Italy and exhibitions held in Toulouse, Franae Madrid, Spain. From then participates in vrias exhibitions in Spain and France. In 2004, portrays the heroine of Ceará Brbara Alencar, his hexav. This year expe Flowers for the Living at the Jade Gallery, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais and realizes exhibitions Cear, Obo Cultural Center in Fortaleza, and the University of Cariri in Crato. In November of that year expe Brbara and Iracema, two women of Cear in Cearense Press Association. In March 2005 An American Springtime in the experiences Solange Rabello Art Gallery in Miami, in July participated in the Caribbean Festival in Santiago de Cuba, exposing Repetrglifos Caribbean, when uncovered, in Park Cspedes reaching PUBLIC estimated 60 000 people. In 2006 repaint Tiradentes Tiradentes Revisited and experience in the Solar Ramalhos in Four Corners, almost in front of his studio - which occasionally with his wife Cidinha, and friends, after acquiring the house beside create the Foundation Oscar Araripe, aiming to take care of the artist work, and the development of painting, literature, journalism, history, politics and the environment, areas related to the life and work the artist. "Araripe, his painting, poetry for me. It has the beauty of color, purity and joy of children and the talent of the artist. So they create the true masters" - Milton Ribeiro says. "... An Oscar Araripe course opened in the jungle of painting" - said Jean Boghici. "From their bright spring brushes entirely new visions of our heritage and Baroque mining landscape dominated by mountains" - says Hlio Carneiro in headline. Bard, poet, singer, storyteller and singer, Araripe a writer of rare beauty and originality - Antonio Houaiss preface of Mary in the Land of My Eyes, Ed Rocco, RJ, 1974. Currently he writes My Life as a Painter, JCOM 70 chapters available on its website www.oscarararipe.com.br. August 2006