Josette Spiaggia

Acrylic on canvas, 1990, size 64 x 49 cm

Salvador, uptown Portuguese, Brazil, to the center Jorge Amado .
The top of the city of Salvador, which overlooks the harbor.
Portuguese colonial style (date of settlement.)
Appearance of a troop macumba out of the mass.

Acrylic on canvas, 1990, size 53 x 64 cm.

Lobster and Avocado Arembepe, Brazil.

Work performed on land, unfinished.

Acrylic on canvas, in August 1990, dimensions 64 x 49 cm.

Table executed on the ground remained unfinished.
Promontory Portuguese maritime defense, traditional fishing boat in Bahia.
Barra is the "St. Tropez of Brazil Salvador de Bahia.

Acrylic on canvas, 1990, size 64 x 49 cm.

Artwork painted on the ground remained unfinished representing a three-masted (shipbuilding old) standing on an arm of the Amazon. In the foreground, fishermen crab collecting their freshwater crab fishing in the lust of vulture sea

Acrylic on canvas, 1990, size 57 x 67 inches

The coconut, the coconut fruit, which grows abundantly in the tropical climate of northern Brazil, is consumed daily by the Brazilian population. She was picked when it contains a lot of liquid milk and a thin layer of flesh to be drunk with a straw after breakthrough.

When no more milk but thick white flesh, it gives rise to quantities of food preparation and extraction of cocoa butter that goes into the manufacture of many products.

Acrylic on canvas, 1990, size 66 x 51 cm.

The straw hut and all the furniture are made in Brazil from the tree to do everything, coconut. It is the permanent home of fishermen, enough back due to tides, fishing boats remained at anchor in the shelter of a coral bar.

Grilled fish, crabs and lobsters, cassava, coconut milk, rum and beer produced by the maceration of plants in jars of rum, are the staple diet of the fishermen.

• Technique: Acrylic on Canvas
• Year: 1990
• Size: unspecified
• Format: unspecified

Portrait of African women - Rose, Latin African Salvador de Bahia

Detail of an unfinished work: Rose met in Salvador de Bahia, who ran a hotel in the heart of the black city, with whom I had long talks on the Status of Women in Latin America, particularly Brazil and in black society.

• Technique: Acrylic on canvas
• Year: 1990
• Dimensions: 66 x 51 cm

It was on a fishing boat that I approached Camamu off the northeast coast of Brazil. This is one of several islands, populated by a dense jungle of coconut palms, impenetrable.

A few leaves of fishermen staying there, the children do not attend school because there are none. They help all around the house, fetching water, sort of fish returning from the fishing ...

Aloisio, a character typical of northern Brazil, mixed, met at random stops to paint my Bocadario seaside

Gifted with a keen sense of observation of his environment as animal and vegetable land and at sea, able to translate this amazing song in the middle, with instruments that fall under his hand that can resonate or vibrate, mimicking a dance feline acrobatic improvised the flight of the Albatross, the eagle of the Andes, the snaking of the anaconda, the antics of parrots, and taking three pieces of wood washed up, using his knife, faces of a thousand gods.

In a word, a man among men who have had seven lives ...

Met in Bahia, capoeira Cruz, one of the young mixed in well formed that the hypocrites do in the street, by popular tradition, half-naked, engaging in impromptu ballet dance and acrobatic warrior, whose roots are African, Indian, and which have a similarity with the martial arts of the Far East ...

Posada: This term means remains hard, which it owns. This is a bill today limiting the coconut forest, at the top of the beach.

It has the simple structure of the colonial house: large rooms that open on both the rear of the home front, with a large canopy that protects the torrential rains as the scorching sun.