In Pedro Castanheira's painting, staging is perhaps the most important element.
The play of lights, with different focuses, the various points of view and overlays of the forms often give rise to scenes that resemble the theatricality of the forms as an unspeakable narrati...
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In Pedro Castanheira's painting, staging is perhaps the most important element.
The play of lights, with different focuses, the various points of view and overlays of the forms often give rise to scenes that resemble the theatricality of the forms as an unspeakable narrative discourse.
His preferences in technical terms reveal a passion for the potential of what the Renaissance has given us again, the discovery of a new material with the potential to create all the effects available to those who study painting.
As a friend/painter Luciano Costa said:
“If the reds, the blacks, the pinks are lust that cuts and from where the ivory of the carnations stands out they are its counterpoint: golds, the colors of topaz and lemon, the blues and greens of the turquoise and the sea, the glass, the peaceful tones, sometimes with a taste of irony, a touch of dream, an air of magic, a deep breath.
Here is Pedro Castanheira "