Adriana de Barros facts for kids
Adriana Aleixo Pereira de Barros (born in 1976) is a talented artist from Portugal and Canada. She is known for being an illustrator, a web designer, and a poet.
Since 1999, Adriana de Barros has been creating unique "visual poems." These are special artworks that mix many different skills. She combines writing, designing, drawing, sound editing, and even filmmaking using digital tools like Flash software. Her visual poems have been shown at big festivals in America, like Flashbang! and The. ME.Project. Her work has also appeared in art books and on websites. People have praised her for making poetry more exciting and easy to understand. She wants her creations to be enjoyable even for those who might not usually like poetry, by making it visually appealing.
Adriana de Barros runs her own design and illustration studio called Breathewords. She also started and edits Scene 360, which is a free online magazine about film and art. Since 2000, this magazine has shared many interesting interviews and stories about top web designers, artists, and filmmakers.
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About Adriana de Barros
Adriana de Barros was born in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. When she was three years old, her family moved to Toronto, Canada. As a child, she mostly loved sports. It wasn't until she was twelve that she discovered her interest in drawing. At age fifteen, her family decided to move back to her birthplace in Portugal. This move brought some challenges for Adriana, as she had to adjust to new ways of learning and a different lifestyle.
In high school, she chose to study art and design. Later, she decided to study cinema in college. However, she felt that the film schools and film industry in Portugal were not as advanced as she hoped. She believes that Toronto would have been a better place to study filmmaking. She still hopes to study filmmaking in North America one day. After high school, she started working part-time for her family's clothing business. This experience led to a full-time job as a fashion and advertising designer for the company. She also helped manage a copy center that had a design section.
In 1999, Adriana de Barros began learning about web design and programming. She felt like she finally found her true calling online. She loved being able to "combine different art forms into each project." The internet allowed her to create and write projects in English without being limited by where she lived. She started by making visual poems using Flash, frame by frame. Later, she founded Scene 360, her online film and arts magazine. In the magazine, she wrote about film and art and shared stories about creative people.
Adriana de Barros is self taught, meaning she learned many of her skills on her own without a formal degree. Today, she still runs her copy center and designs in her studio. She is the main leader and creative director of Breathewords.com. Her work includes many different types of media. She creates hand-painted magazine covers, designs for online stores (e-commerce), and even fun Flash websites for poets.
Her Amazing Work
Visual Poetry: Art That Moves
Adriana de Barros creates interactive stories and poems. These have been shown at design and Flash festivals. They have also been featured online in places like poemsthatgo (with "Winter City Sleeps" and "Blinding Lights" in 2001). Her work "Freedom of Expression in the Copyright Era" was shown on the popular design website K10k in 2004. Her piece "Invisible" was featured in the online art gallery Lumen Eclipse in 2007.
Her Unique Illustration Style
Adriana's art often explores everyday life, human feelings (psychology), and colors. She also loves to imagine and create surreal scenes, which are dream-like and unusual. She enjoys painting portraits of people with interesting facial expressions. You might often see hands, angel wings, butterflies, and animals in her artwork.
A special part of Adriana de Barros's style is that she sometimes "intentionally leaves parts of her pieces unfinished or with imperfections." She loves both old styles and modern life. She gets ideas from the Golden Age of Cinema and the Renaissance period (like the unfinished sketches by Leonardo da Vinci). She mixes this with a Pop Art feel. For example, she paints kids in animal masks or Disney characters. Her art often has bold outlines like tattoos and bright backgrounds. Her creative process is different from many artists. It often starts with writing, inspired by a theme, a song, or something from daily life. Then, she turns these ideas into a visual artwork.
Adriana de Barros uses many different painting techniques. She uses acrylic paints, but also mixes in mixed media like watercolor, color pencils, spray paint, and collage.
Multimedia Creations
Adriana de Barros's web designs use both Flash and static media (like CSS and HTML). Her designs have been recognized for their excellence. They were featured in "HOW magazine's Top Ten Links in 2003 (USA) and Web Designing magazine in Japan (2003). Her work also appeared in Taschen's 1000 Favorite Websites (2003, Germany) and STEP Inside Design magazine (2004, USA).
She has won a Portuguese Multimedia II Award in 2005. She also received two nominations for the SXSW Web Awards (in 2003 and 2004). In 2004, she was nominated for the 17th Stuttgart Filmwinter New Media Award. The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA, Cincinnati) gave her work a Top Design Site Award. MSN.com named one of her sites Site of the Week, and Yahoo! gave her a New and Notable mention.
Adriana de Barros is also active in the design world. She led a workshop at the OFFF04 convention in Valencia, Spain. There, she talked about the behind-the-scenes work of her visual poems and films. She continues to give lectures about web design at universities in Portugal.
Interviews
- Poetry from Portugal - H2O Magazine
- Web Gurus Interviews - Erudition[Usurped!]
See also
In Spanish: Adriana de Barros para niños
