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rt canmake you look at something in an exciting and totally different way. It can give you the power to ‘fly,’” says the charismatic Romero Britto. “My art is about love, celebration, joy, happiness and creating a beautiful energy” he exclaims. A firm
influenced by other artists, fromDa Vinci to Dali, hemoved toMiami where Pop Art was flourishing at the time, and set up a studio open to the public, spending the next few years exhibiting and attracting art lovers’ attention, drawing comparisons with iconic Pop Art luminaries such as AndyWarhol, KeithHaring and Roy Lichtenstein. He also achieved recognition through commercially astute projects, working with Coca Cola, Audi, Bentley and Disney to name but a few. And earlier this year he was named Olympic Ambassador for the 2016 Rio Olympics, where hewill be bringing his art to the biggest global audience of all, having undertaken similar work for the 2014 World Cup in his native Brazil. The trademark crayon-like colours and his fusion of Cubist and Pop Art influences havewon himglobal plaudits, and The New York Times recently concluded that his dynamic work exuded
believer in the role of an artist as an agent for positive change, Britto’s work evokes happiness and hope using a visual language that is universal. A passionate believer that art should be available to all, the enthusiasm for his craft is infectious. “I get my inspiration fromsimple things in life – frombeautiful things that happen in life, that makeme happy and leaveme inspired” he adds. Self-taught froman early age, andwith a vivid imagination and creative spirit, he painted on newspaper, cardboard or any scraps that he could find during what he calls a ‘modest’ childhood in Brazil, as one of eight siblings. "My
something the world is short on - “warmth, optimismand love.”
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humble beginnings serve as true inspiration for me. I knowhow it feels to not have anything” says Britto, whose artistic imagination was ignited by visiting Paris in the early 1980’s and seeing
That upbeat message has won himan international audience of modern art collectors, including celebrities such as singer Gloria Estefan who says she loves his art because it is “colourful,
thework of Matisse and Picasso for the first time. Heavily
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