Newton Rocha is a self-taught painter, born in 1968 at Recife, Pernambuco State, Brazil. Recife was built as a port city along tropical, white sand beaches lined up with palm trees, where coconut water and cactus flowers co-exist. This masterpiece of...
Read MoreNewton Rocha is a self-taught painter, born in 1968 at Recife, Pernambuco State, Brazil. Recife was built as a port city along tropical, white sand beaches lined up with palm trees, where coconut water and cactus flowers co-exist. This masterpiece of nature contradictions inspired Newton’s art as a translation of nature contrast in art form that synthesizes influences of Dali, Kandinsky, Miro and along with all his experiments and researches and creates an extemporaneous essence of art that belongs to artist himself.He depicts distorted figures and extravagant colors melted in an abstraction that insinuates the facts of his surrounding reality; regional dreams and fantasies of familiar scenes, local characters and popular events. Newton Rocha’s originality and creativity portraits the man and his roots, while at the same time projects him into the cosmos of the contemporary world with a strange mixture of strength and simplicity that makes his paintings alive with a sense of invasion in observer’s mind that confuses and resolves itself in definition. This complex ambiguity is the magic combination that best defines Newton Rocha and his art; A Man, The World and his Contradictions.
Cecília Grindley.Newton Rocha currently lives in Brazil; where he continues to expand and evolve artistically.
Artist Statement
"I started my artistic life as a self-taught painter in 1985. Since then I've experienced almost every medium on almost every support hunting my own formula. In the mid-nineties I tried three-dimensional material, so I went through a stage experimenting collage using found objects and or others that is no longer in use. Anything I could give another meaning. I named it Recycle Art. From Recycle Art I evolved to Interlineation.
Interlineation is the result of the evolutionary summation of all my experiments and research I've made in my artistic life. By gluing strings to delineate I realized that the strings give me the freedom to create implied sense figures subconsciously. After applying the strings on the canvas, I see the result of creation from all angles, so I work on them. In creating this technique, I realized that it solves the big issue known as blank canvas by themselves because each figure gets its own space in its self-creation resulting in an interesting game of interpretations by viewers, whether in the same or a different angle. I also consciously draw figures using the same collage technique. The composition/aesthetics in both cases is made consciously.
“When I get an amount of strings to apply on the canvas It's as if the design was already in that tangle of strings in my hand and I feel like I have lots of pencils at the same time. Interlineation allow me to set the abstract design free and the result is PURE AND GENUINE”.
I also created an innovation technique. By moving andor switching the canvasses on the diptych, triptych and polyptych the image transformation takes place. I named it Puzzle Art. In addition, I realized that technique represents the fourth dimension. I named it 4D. That technique has never been done in the visual art and, as I have never seen a painting made by a technique like that, I think, I have made my contribution to the art world.
“PUZZLE ART& 4D could revolutionize the way of creation in the visual arts and I hope it awakens all people to the fourth dimension in all senses".
