Henrique oliveira biography of williams

While in a pause to reflect on what he should do with his life, artist Henrique Oliveira, after a sojourn in São Paulo, where he studied social media at Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, returned to his hometown of Ourinhos, in the countryside of the state of São Paulo, and opened a studio next to his father`s woodworking shop, which was kind of abandoned. Such change happened in 1997, the year he decided to dedicate himself to painting.

But how can one decide to be a painter? What makes someone call him/herself an artist and then become a painter? And, finally, how can someone assume his/her painting is art?

These questions were made by Richard Wollheim in his book Painting as an Art. According to the author, painting would be in certain acts of painting, acts that would create particular paintings. The book title alludes, according to Wollheim, to the different ways people paint, and what makes it a painting is what the artist does and not what s/he says.

Henrique Oliveira has a very peculiar way of painting, one that makes him a painter. The decision as to whether what he does is painting is not up to him, in this case. And it is this peculiar way of working or his artistic process th

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