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Jose Francisco Borges in his studio c.2008

The Arrival of the Stork c.2008
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Shawn Corbett
Locura Esperancosa, A Hopeful Madness
Welcome in. Browse our unique collection of folk, outsider, visionary and surreal
art from Latin America and the United States.
Featured Artist Jose Francisco Borges
Jose Francisco Borges (1935-) is the greatest self-taught master
of Brasilian folk woodcut. A true outsider, he has only attended 10 months of
school in his life yet he has designed thousands of woodcut masterpieces and written
hundreds of folhetos; chapbooks of narrative verse.
Mr. Borges woodcuts have been exhibited in the Louvre in Paris, France:
the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, United States: and the Museum of
International Folk in Sante Fe, NM, United States. The Library of Congress in
Washington has preserved a collection of his art in their archives. UNESCO recently
honored him for his contributions to world culture. It’s very rare for a living
outsider artist to receive such accolades yet Mr. Borges remains humble.
True to his diverse Latin culture, Mr. Borges' subjects range from
the bawdy to the divine. Catholicism, Afro-American religions, Brasilian culture
and folklore, current events and the beauty of the Brasilian countryside have
all served as inspiration for his artistic and literary work. His collected stories
read like a Brasilian Canterbury Tales. An innate but naive sense of design enables him to tell compelling stories visually
with more power, pathos or humor than the written word.
Please click the "Gallery Artists" link in the upper left to see Mr. Borges work
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