Artist Information:
Gustavo Alves
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
Member Since: Jul 2003
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Artist Statement:
I started to study painting
only three years ago, but I
always made drawings and, when
I started to work with
Journalism, even tried to
became an illustrator, without
success. At the time, I was
very shy and did not believe
that I would have a future
with this, specially living in
a small town. I like to do
figurative paintings (I also
made a couple of
abstractions), inspired in
things I see everyday or in my
hobbies and memories from my
teenage years – newspaper
photos, comics, musicians…
Recently, I created a small
series inspired in guitar
players (my heroes when I was
a kid) and another inspired on
crime scenes. Give me some
time and I intend to put some
of these works here. I also
made some drawings with pencil
and, afterwards, scannned and
blew them up. The bigger
versions show the
irregularities, the imperfect
lines, what particularlly
interests me in the drawing of
figures. There is an
opportunity to change the
person depicted, to emphasize
some aspects of his or her
appearence, or just to suggest
some others. That gives it a
kind of unique personality
that you do not get in
photography, for example.
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Gustavo Alves's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Gustavo Alves's Portfolio.
I started to study painting only three years ago, but I always made drawings and, when I started to work with Journalism, even tried to became an illustrator, without success. At the time, I was very shy and did not believe that I would have a future with this, specially living in a small town. I like to do figurative paintings (I also made a couple of abstractions), inspired in things I see everyday or in my hobbies and memories from my teenage years – newspaper photos, comics, musicians… Recently, I created a small series inspired in guitar players (my heroes when I was a kid) and another inspired on crime scenes. Give me some time and I intend to put some of these works here. I also made some drawings with pencil and, afterwards, scannned and blew them up. The bigger versions show the irregularities, the imperfect lines, what particularlly interests me in the drawing of figures. There is an opportunity to change the person depicted, to emphasize some aspects of his or her appearence, or just to suggest some others. That gives it a kind of unique personality that you do not get in photography, for example.
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