Cicero Matos Biography

C. Matos, born in Jacobina, 1957, Chapada Diamantina, Bahia interior. Brazil. His paintings relate the movement with a dynamic contrast color and a stroke almost violent. The theme of his work is very varied, sometimes hinges on Brazil, its customs, its people, others become intimate, sexual, passionate, also has social issues, poverty, marginalization ... Influenced by the expressionism of the mid-XX century, painters like Max Ernst and his work 33 girls in search of the white butterfly (1958).