TRAFFIC WARDEN - ORIGINAL PAINTING

Author: Danilo Tavares
Title: Traffic Guard
Original work
Oil on canvas
30x40cm
2024 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Signed on the back
The artwork comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by the author.

About the artwork:
After venturing into almost total abstraction, I began to explore other styles, and that's when I found myself admiring Cubist and Expressionist art. Suddenly, I realized that the two things went very well together. This work represents a moment of innovation and experimentation, one of the first steps in the maturation of my authorial art. Influenced by the essential aspects of Cubism and Expressionism, I developed a style that I call Express-Cubism. With this style, I seek to portray scenes from everyday life, whether using real references or things from my imagination, exploring different viewpoints and perspectives. Each element of the image presents a distinct perspective, while the human figures also incorporate a bit of Cubist figuration, in which the figures appear with an aspect of fragmentation, but still, in unity. Expressionism is present in using these visual representations to represent what one feels and understands from these experiences, rather than the figures themselves. With this series, I don't want to represent things, but the experiences we have with them.

Concepts of the artwork:
A traffic guard is someone who performs their function somewhere, for some purpose. How much can we resemble them? How much can we understand the craft of a traffic guard? We are constantly in transit in our lives. How much do we need to be guarded in our transit? Experiences, feelings, ideas... all these things are in transit. They transit through us, they transit from us to others...
Are we the ones guarding the transit of all these things?
Who is guarding us during our transit in this life?
Have you been following any traffic rules?

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