The least that can be said of Daniela Castilho is that he is a rich person. I’m not talking about money, obviously. I talk about ideas, emotions, projects, content. To talk with her is to live with a whirlwind of concepts, opinions and positions, some entirely emotional, others completely produced in the intellectual area. Daniela Castilho is a rich person and enriches others with her contact. She is also a direct and objective person, although she is classified as shy. She’s trying to make things simple. His painting, like every work of art, deserves a much more complex and profound interpretation.
Digital art – a new type of brush
She currently works with purely digital art and the result is simply fantastic. So perhaps, she was invited to participate in the Firenze Biennial, to show here what we are showing here in CyberArtes with gently ceded images, taken from the artist’s blog. By the way, a beautiful job too. A trend towards very beautiful monochromatic mounts contrasts with another tendency to use lively, vigorous and mixed primary colors, drawing attention exactly by the striking contrast. There is no way to choose the preferred form. It achieves its own and well-determined effects, both with intrinsic strength and full of inner power.
Monochromatic trend or strong colors – different results
The themes can be recurring and the artist often paints a series on the same topic until she temporarily feels the subject. Once, he looked at the wings drawn by Leonardo da Vinci and imagined angels with those wings. A series has emerged with this theme. When she looks at an image, Daniela already thinks about a composition and goes out writing everything down in a notebook that should be a madness and an indecipherable enigma, except in her own eyes. Daniela seems like a well-centered person but her notebook must be one of those immense trips without beginning or end, its own object for endless, fun and crazy research.
Puzzles of the inside of the mind
Although often inspiration comes from a song or an event, most of the time part of an image, real-life scenes or photographs, for example. “I start with an idea. For example, I have an image whose theme is a Nautilus. I once found a beautiful photo on the internet, I fell in love with the shape and made a set of six images with that shape, in several colors, in different styles, only with strokes, with strokes and volumes, with and without
shadowed.” Daniela is like this, a mixture of intelligence and instinct with strong marks on both characteristics. Can you? Of course it can. This mixture is not even rare, but it is always fantastic.
Angels, fairies, elves, demons – supernatural beings! Or not?
She works with art direction and as a design. “Working with design and art direction has allowed me to be freer with my art: I don’t need to make commercial art, that is, to worry about producing something commercial, I produce my art as I want it to be.” This leaves it free from commitments that could influence its production and aims, whenever it produces, the result of the work itself. The buyer chooses the work by herself and not by the color of the sofa in his house. That is a victory that you are proud of. “It’s very rewarding,” he explains.
Greek figures and mathematical formulas – contrast and diversity
For those who have the inspiration first in images and work with computer technology, the influences must be multiple and extremely diverse. I realized the presence of Escher, who knew how to live together between science and art with his illusions and mathematical formulas. The Greek forms are present, as is the American pop of Andy Warhol and his colorful magic. The likely is that there was nothing like this but it brought me the memory and as each one looks at the art with the eyes of his emotion, that’s how I saw it. And I liked what I saw. A lot.
Collages – a dive into the soul
The art of Daniela Castilho touched me closely and will certainly touch many people closely. There will be those who reject their work because it is digital art and this is a common opinion, especially among brush lovers but the strength of digital art works as a motor grader. There is no way to oppose resistance and your beauty must be recognized. The question arises only when the word art is used, this indefinite and indecipherable thing. Let’s see what they say at the Firenze Biennial because the artist was invited to participate in the Biennial. She didn’t send a job and was selected. She was chosen and invited, which gives a much higher status and guaranteed prominence. Of course all this needs a sponsor to remit the work and everything. It is not a lot of money and it is a good opportunity to sponsor a person who will have guaranteed visibility, there in Firenze and on the way back to Brazil, because you will certainly receive many invitations. If we had money for that, we’d bet on that one. We will guarantee all disclosure with the 2,500 daily accesses of CyberArts.
Article published By Ronaldo Carneiro Leão