WGeorgina de Albuquerque was a Brazilian Impressionist painter and teacher. She was known for her interest in female subjects. Her husband Lucílio was a noted painter in his own right and the two are strongly associated with each other.
WAntonio Henrique Amaral was a Brazilian painter and printmaker. He is best known for his images' artistic and political critiques in the form of a series of paintings of bananas that have been mutilated by forks and ropes.
WFrancisco Pedro do Amaral was a Brazilian painter, designer, scenographer and gilder.
WAugusto Bracet was a Brazilian painter, drawer and professor.
WAtiliano Felix Bernardelli was a Brazilian Mexican painter and musician. He spent most of his life in Mexico teaching art. Gerardo Murillo and Roberto Montenegro were among his pupils.
WVictor Cesar Bota , a Brazilian writer, photographer, director, producer of Italian descent who began his artistic life as a painter.
WRomero Britto is a Brazilian artist, painter, serigrapher, and sculptor. He combines elements of cubism, pop art, and graffiti painting in his work, using vibrant colors and bold patterns as a visual expression of hope, dreams, and happiness.
WDelfim Joaquim Maria Martins da Câmara was a Brazilian portrait painter.
WGiovanni Battista Felice Castagneto, or João Batista Castagneto, was an Italo-Brazilian landscape and seascape painter.
WThiago Raphael Castanho is a Brazilian guitarist, record producer, painter and sculptor, best known for being a founding member of alternative rock bands Charlie Brown Jr., Aliados, A Banca and O Legado, and for his subsequent work with Ira! and Capital Inicial.
WJulie de Cistello, or Julie vicomtesse de la Bourdonnaye Cistello is a Brazilian impressionist painter.
WJoão Timóteo da Costa was an Afro-Brazilian painter and decorative artist.
WRicardo do Pilar (1635–1700) was a Brazilian monk and painter.
WFlavio-Shiró is a Japanese-Brazilian visual artist. Regarded as an influential postwar Brazilian painter, he is known for his dark and disturbing paintings that merge elements of abstract expressionism and surrealism. He is one of the main representatives of abstract expressionism in Brazil.
WGessiron Alves de Franco, known as Siron Franco Brazilian painter and sculptor, Siron Franco was born in Goiás Velho, GO, on July 26, 1947. Siron Franco spent his childhood and adolescence in Goiânia, taking his first painting lessons under the guidance of the artists DJ Oliveira and Cleber Gouveia. He started making a living at the age of 13, painting and selling portraits of the cities´ bourgeoise. In 1965, he focused on drawings, following the unreal and grotesque sketches he had in mind. In 1968 he won the National Biennal of Bahia. Between 1969 and 1971, Siron lived in São Paulo, frequented the studios of Bernardo Cid and Walter Lewy in São Paulo and was one of the members of the group that participated in the exhibition Surrealism and Fantastic Art at Seta Gallery. In 1973, Siron Franco won the prestigious Salao Global da Primavera in Rio de Janeiro. Afterwards he spent a year living in Mexico City. After winning the International prize of São Paulo´s Biennal Exhibition in 1975, Siron toured Europe between 1976 and 1978 living mainly in Toledo and Madrid in Spain. In 1982, his Exhibition at Bonino Gallery was considered the best of the year in Brazil and Siron received the distinguished title of the best Brazilian Painter of 1982 by APCA, São Paulo's Painters & Critics Association.
WAnna Bella Geiger, is a Brazilian multi-disciplinary artist of Jewish-Polish ancestry, and professor at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. She lives in Rio de Janeiro, and her work, characterized by the use of different media, is held by galleries and private collections in the US, China, Brazil and Europe.
WJohann Georg Grimm (1846–1887) was a German painter, designer and decorator who is best known for the work he produced during a lengthy stay in Brazil.
WAlberto da Veiga Guignard was a Brazilian painter, known by painting the landscapes of Minas Gerais.
WFrans Krajcberg was a Polish Brazilian painter, sculptor, engraver and photographer. Known for his environmental activism, Krajcberg denounced the destruction of the Brazilian forests, using materials such as burnt wood from illegal forest fires in his artworks.
WLobo is a Brazilian painter of Pop Art. He has already painted artworks for personalities such as Luciano Huck, Angélica, Sabrina Sato, and Michel Teló, among others. He has also participated in projects together with companies such as Heineken, Mercado Livre, and Viva Schin, among others.
WDenis Mandarino is a Brazilian composer, artist and writer, and a disciple of Hans-Joachim Koellreutter in choral conducting and aesthetics.
WSergio Rossetti Morosini is a Brazilian-American artist and author of Venetian extraction. He has served as Brazil's Cultural attaché in New Orleans and is dedicated to preserving the Atlantic Forest and restoring the art in stone of New York City Landmarks.
WIsmael Nery was a Brazilian artist.
WJoao Feliciano, Sr. (NicSon) is a contemporary Brazilian painter mostly known for his particular skills in palette knife painting. Also, one of the few autodidact impressionists alive whose art has reached commercial and critic success in Brazil.
WElizabeth Kimball de Albuquerque Poor is a Brazilian artist working in Rio de Janeiro and London.
WMiguel Rio Branco is a Brazilian photographer, painter, and filmmaker. His work has focused on Brazil and included photojournalism, and social and political criticism.
WEduardo de Sá was a Brazilian sculptor and painter.
WSimplício Rodrigues de Sá was a Portuguese-born painter and art professor who spent most of his career in Brazil.
WOsmar Santos is a former painter and journalist from Brazil. He was a very successful radio and television sports commentator in the 1980s and early 1990s, known for his outstanding verbal fluency and for his numerous catchphrases, which still punctuate Brazilian football culture. Throughout his career, Osmar Santos worked alongside major sportscasters and media personalities, such as Galvão Bueno, Fausto Silva and João Saldanha. He also worked as TV host in a number of shows. Osmar Santos publicly supported Diretas Já, a political movement for direct suffrage in Brazilian presidential politics.
WJorge Selarón was a Chilean-born Brazilian painter and ceramist. He is perhaps best known for his work on the Escadaria Selarón, a world-famous set of ceramic tile-covered stairs located in the Lapa and Santa Teresa neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
WIvan Ferreira Serpa was a Brazilian painter, draftsman, printmaker, designer, and educator active in the concrete art movement. Much of his work was in geometric abstractionism. He founded Grupo Frente, which included fellow artists Lygia Clark, Helio Oiticica, and Franz Weissmann, among others, and was known for mentoring many artists in Brazil.
WArsênio Cintra da Silva was a Brazilian painter and pioneering photographer.
WAdrien Taunay the Younger was a French painter and draftsman.
WBeny Tchaicovsky (1954-2009) was a painter, musician and a multimedia computer artist. Tchaicovsky’s paintings have been exhibited internationally in museums such the Luxembourg Museum in Paris in the 1989 show "Les Trois Ameriques a Paris", as well as in exhibitions in Germany, Brazil and the United States. Tchaicovsky’s numerous awards include The Visionary awarded first place for the best cyberposter in the International Multimedia Day at the 49th Cannes Film Festival in 1996.
WAmauri Torezan is a Brazilian abstract artist currently living in South Florida in the United States. Torezan’s paintings are currently part of collections throughout USA, Europe, and Brazil.
WDécio Rodrigues Villares was a Brazilian painter, sculptor, caricaturist, and graphic designer. He is best known for helping to design the blue disc on the Brazilian Flag and his designs for the monument honoring Júlio de Castilhos.
WEliseu Visconti, born Eliseo d'Angelo Visconti was an Italian-born Brazilian painter, cartoonist, and teacher. He is considered one of the very few impressionist painters of Brazil. He is considered the initiator of the art nouveau in Brazil.