Women On Beach

Hector Julio Paride Bernabo or Carybe (b. Argentina, 7 February 1911 - d. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 2 October 1997) was a painter, engraver,... more

by Hector Julio Paride Bernabo or Carybe

Title

Women On Beach

Artist

Hector Julio Paride Bernabo or Carybe

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

Hector Julio Paride Bernabo or Carybe (b. Argentina, 7 February 1911 - d. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 2 October 1997) was a painter, engraver, draughtsman, illustrator, potter, sculptor, mural painter, researcher, historian and journalist. He settled in Brazil and naturalized as a Brazilian.

While living in Rio de Janeiro, he was a scout. There, scouts were nicknamed after types of fish, and he was given the nickname of Carybe (a kind of piranha). So the artist used it as an alias for his Christian name, which was very similar to his brother's name, who was also an artist.

He produced five thousand pieces of work, including paintings, drawings, sculptures and sketches. He illustrated books by Jorge Amado as well as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude." He was an Oba de Xango, an honorary position in candomble. He died of heart failure during a session in a candomble yard.

Some of Carybes work can be found in the Afro-Brazilian Museum of Salvador: 27 panels representing the orixas. of the Bahian candomble. Each board shows an orixa with his weapons and his animal of worship. They were sculpted on cedar wood, with engravings and scaling of various kinds of material. The work was commissioned by the former Banco da Bahia S.A., now Banco BBM S.A., which installed them in its branch on Avenida Sete de Setembro in 1968.

Carybe produced more than 5,000 works; his art was expressed through paintings, engravings, illustrations, wood carvings, mosaics and murals.

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May 26th, 2014