Heitor dos Prazeres
Heitor dos Prazeres is samba in the form of painting.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, 1957.
Heitor dos Prazeres was born in 1898, in Rio de Janeiro, in a Brazil that pulsed to the sound of samba drums, terreiro batukas and popular parties. Born just ten years after slavery was abolished in Brazil, Heitor moved between social classes and diverse artistic manifestations.
As a child, he learned to build instruments and, soon after, he became one of the founders of the first school of samba in the country, Deixa Falar.
But it was in painting that he found another stage for his rhythm.
óleo sobre tela
50 x 62 cm
Galatea São Paulo Collection
óleo sobre tela
50 x 65 cm
Private Collection
Autodidact, Heitor started painting on paper, wood, and any available surface, transforming daily gestures into color. The scenes portrayed samba, carnival, encounters on the street, children playing, anonymous and free figures of the Carioca suburbs. Everything was a reason to celebrate life in motion.
His work gained international recognition in the 1950s, when he participated in the Venice Biennale, becoming the first black Brazilian artist to exhibit there. From there on, Heitor's paintings crossed oceans, occupied museums and collections around the world, but without ever losing the soul that originated them: vibrant, community-based and generous.
In a TH that breathes art, revisiting Heitor's work today is revisiting a deep Brazil, where art is the extension of life, the body and the street.
It is to remember that the gesture of creating can be as spontaneous as a drum beat or a dance step.
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