Beatriz Milhazes

-Brazilian artist-vibrantly colorful, kaleidoscopic -collages, prints, paintings and installations -Latin American and European traditions.

-Brazilian culture, ceramics, lacework, Carnival decoration, music, and architecture.

She has also said that opera, classical and Brazilian popular music as having inspired the upbeat energy of her stripes, lines, circular forms, and rays.

Organic Shape- an irregular shape, or one that may be found in nature

Geometric Shape- shapes that have hard, defined lines and angles such as squares, triangles, rectangles

Beatriz has said her influences have come from Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, and Robert Delaunay.

“I need to have all these elements and put them together.” Beatriz Milhazes uses carefully chosen SHAPE, COLOR, LINE, SPACE to create her artworks.

You will be using all of these elements in your artwork.

What shapes do you see?

What types of line?

What colors?

Beatriz video