Praia Brava – Itajai – Brazil (surf spots series)
Andre Brik, 2017
New Media, Edition of 20
60 x 60 x 0 cm
Pigment and Vector on Paper
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About the artwork Praia Brava – Itajai – Brazil (surf spots series)
Tube waves breaking on a beautiful beach next to the city of Camboriú and its hideous skyscrapers. In this conception, a huge wave seems to sweep off the distant unnatural skyline.
About the artist Andre Brik
Andre Brik was born in Curitiba, Brazil in 1972. Architect, illustrator, and art director, he also studied typography and graphic design at the School of Visual Arts and at Parsons School of Design in New York.
In his works, you can find some of the 1920’s Plakatstil graphic style and polish posters with their clean lines and flat contrasting background colors, their visual puns and wit, and subtle irony. There is also nonsense, humor, counterculture, dada, surrealism, and punk rock. The ideas are born from the observation of the elements of everyday objects. Then the artist begins a long process of sketching to deconstruct and recombine shapes, colors, and meanings. Finally, a careful selection of outcoming ideas is chosen to be digitally developed, painted, and finished as a graphic art illustration.