![]() In particular, the woodcuts in One Hundred Years of Solitude are well-known for providing a visual image of the fictional town of Macondo, where the story takes place. ArqBahia | Arquitetura, design, arte e lifestyle (in Brazilian Portuguese). The mural "Rejoicing and Festival of the Americas" portrays colorful scenes from popular festivals throughout the Americas, and "Discovery and Settlement of the West" depicts the pioneers’ journey into the American West.Ĭarybé's Woodcuts in Gabriel García Márquez's Books Ĭarybé illustrated four books by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, including One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and Love in the Time of Cholera "Carybé: um mestre da cultura baiana". The 16.5 x 53-foot murals were accredited when Carybé won the first and the second prize in a contest of public art pieces for JFK airport.Īs its terminal at that airport was due for demolition, American Airlines donated the murals to Miami-Dade County, and Odebrecht invested in a project to remove, restore, transport and install the murals at Miami International Airport. Kennedy International Airport in New York since 1960. They have been displayed in the American Airlines terminal at John F. Murals at Miami International Airport Īmerican Airlines, Odebrecht and the Miami-Dade Aviation Department partnered to install two of Carybé's murals at Miami International Airport. The work was commissioned by the former Banco da Bahia S.A., now Banco BBM S.A., which originally installed them in its branch on Avenida Sete de Setembro in 1968. Each panel shows a divinity with their associated implements and animal. Some of Carybé's work can be found in the Afro-Brazilian Museum in Salvador: 27 cedar panels representing different orixás or divinities of the Afro-Brazilian religion candomblé. ![]() Orixá Panels in the Afro-Brazilian Museum in Salvador He was an Obá de Xangô, an honorary position at Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá. He produced thousands of works, including paintings, drawings, sculptures and sketches. He died of heart failure after the meeting of a candomblé community's lay board of directors, the Cruz Santa Opô Afonjá Society, of which he was a member. ![]() His nickname and artistic name, Carybé, a type of piranha, comes from his time in the scouts. Héctor Julio Páride Bernabó (7 February 1911 – 2 October 1997) was an Argentine-Brazilian artist, researcher, writer, historian and journalist. Painter, engraver, draughtsman, illustrator, potter, sculptor, mural painter, researcher, historian and journalist ![]()
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