Paintings
Paintings by Chico da Silva and the Pirambu School, in gouache and acrylic, catalogued in the João Cunha Collection, Fortaleza, Brazil.
From the early 1960s Chico da Silva worked with a circle of young painters at his house in Pirambu, a seaside neighborhood of Fortaleza. The group became known as the Escola do Pirambu, the Pirambu School. The paintings here run from his gouaches and acrylics of the late 1960s and 1970s to the canvases his disciples painted in the decades after his death.
Chico da Silva
Roosters, dragons, fish and fantastic birds, in gouache and acrylic, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.
The Pirambu revival
The Instituto Oboé and the Pirambu Revival →Two decades after Chico da Silva’s death, the Instituto Cultural Oboé, a finance house in Fortaleza with a gallery of its own, brought his disciples back to the canvas: Babá, Claudionor and Gerardo da Silva. Most of these acrylics carry a double attribution, Chico da Silva by the painter who made them.
