Chico Souza | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

Whether abstract, figurative, formalist, expressionist or impressionist, the acrylics on Chico Souza's canvases mix up movements, forms and styles in order to challenge any prior allusions and thereby confuse any established system of categorisation. Nature and Earth, their colours and their textures are subjects that the artist can study infinitely. He has always maintained a particular relationship to his country of birth (where the artist drew his first sketches with his little fingers) and places major importance on the influence of natural landscapes, the symbolism of origins, of roots, of the nourishing value of the Earth. Whether these landscapes are dealt with in a realist manner or, alternatively through abstract representation, for Chico Souza it is always about displaying the emotions that nature inspires in man.