We look at 4 Brazilian artists and discuss their art and NFT styles.

Fiedler

Estelle Flores

Gio Mariani

Thais Silva

Transcript below;

[0:05] Sabretooth:

Welcome to the floor is rising, I'm Sabretooth with me is Kizu. Today we're going

to talk about Brazilian art, Hic et Nunc, was founded by Raphael Lima, who is

Brazilian. And some of the most interesting artists on the platform are also

Brazilian. Definitely not a country that is usually associated with sort of emerging

art or very interesting art. But in the NFT world, and especially Hic et Nunc, they

are a, I would say, a dominant presence on the platform. And none other than

probably one of the most popular artists anywhere, not just on Hic et Nunc but

belting all of NFT is Fiedler, who is a Brazilian artist that from a sales perspective is

basically selling out the moment that he drops anything, his secondary sales is

very, very strong. And not just on Hic et Nunc, but also on ethereum and opensea

as well. And I want to throw it to you Kizu. What do you think of Fiedler?

[1:12] Kizu:

Well, I would dispute what you said about Braziil not being a usual suspect in

terms of contemporary, I think maybe at the moment, early 2020s 2010s. Yeah,

it's been a bit quieter, I think. But I would say that Brazil has always been a very

strong creative force, maybe not in the fine art world, I just want to give that kind

of overview. I think that there's obviously a huge country in the pig population, a

lot of intersecting cultures, he's got a very patchy and checkered history of

colonialism, very kind of tense divide between haves, have nots, black culture,

white culture, kind of that mix. So you know, I think that's very fertile ground for

creatives and artists. But to come back to 2021 where we are, I think that the the

fact that the founder being Brazilian has a little bit to do with that. So I think that

helps to know that there's a kind of community that's sprung out of that. But to

go to the art specifically, I think that it's an aesthetic that I was trying to put my

finger on. It's reminiscent of many other both Fine Art idioms, as well as more

poster art, comic art kind of styles. The one thing that actually jumps into my

mind right away actually was, I don't know if you're familiar with the Australian

kind of surf brand Mambo, which started out in the 80s. I think it came out of

Australian post punk scene. So there was obviously the music influence. And I

think if you look at a lot of kind of more sub cultural art styles, historically, I think

they always encompass something else, like whether it was skate culture, or punk

music and stuff like that. So obviously, I think the color scheme is a bit different.

The style is obviously a little bit different. Well, it's the kind of thing that like if as

a 14 year old with a skateboard and you came back home, with a T-shirt with one

of these motifs, your mom would not be very pleased, it's that kind of thing. I

think Fiedler, obviously he has a very strong kind of technology or like

smartphone addiction, dopamine kind of thing going on. It's certainly not hyper

sexualized, I think. But there are some very, like crude facial expressions, the way

that the human figures appear and stuff like that. The colors are very appealing,

kind of acid blue, pink, neon yellow. So I think that it's a very kind of...