Carybé (1911 - 1997)
Monday, 20. April 2009, 16:43:26
The 7th of February 1911, in the city of Lanús, a boy named Hector Julio Páride Bernabó was born. Lanús is a city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In Rio de Janeiro he worked as an errand boy and earned his name Carybé, which is a type of a piranha. When he was 14 he started engaging in artwork, at his elder brother’s atelier in Rio: 2 years later he started studying in the Escola National de Belas Artes. After his studies, Carybé did work as graphic artist for different journals. In 1938 he eventually visited Salvador for the first time. Only after many travels and other jobs, visiting South America all over, was he invited to stay at Bahia, in 1950. There he stayed till his death, in 1997.
In Bahía he produced his greatest artworks, like As Três Mulheres da Xângo and worked together with great contemporary artists like Pierre Verger or Jorge Amado. Carybé was not only a famous artist, but he also was an Oba de Xângo, a Candomblé priest till his very end. The 1st of October 1997 he died during a ceremony. With his death, Brasil lost one of its best recent artists.
My first contact with Carybé's work, was in this short story writen by Jorge Amado, illustrated by Carybé:
a Spoted Cat and Swallow Sihné...an impossible love story
É argentino, é brasileiro, é quichua,
é asteca, é inca, é carioca por bossa
mas baiano por fé.
É amigo do mundo inteiro
menos de quem náo dá pé.
Canta cantigas de Cuzco
da Havana e do Tremenbé.
É um sambista milongueiro
Bate um violáo de terreiro.
E é santo de cadomblé.
*Vincius de Moraes*
In Rio de Janeiro he worked as an errand boy and earned his name Carybé, which is a type of a piranha. When he was 14 he started engaging in artwork, at his elder brother’s atelier in Rio: 2 years later he started studying in the Escola National de Belas Artes. After his studies, Carybé did work as graphic artist for different journals. In 1938 he eventually visited Salvador for the first time. Only after many travels and other jobs, visiting South America all over, was he invited to stay at Bahia, in 1950. There he stayed till his death, in 1997.
In Bahía he produced his greatest artworks, like As Três Mulheres da Xângo and worked together with great contemporary artists like Pierre Verger or Jorge Amado. Carybé was not only a famous artist, but he also was an Oba de Xângo, a Candomblé priest till his very end. The 1st of October 1997 he died during a ceremony. With his death, Brasil lost one of its best recent artists.
My first contact with Carybé's work, was in this short story writen by Jorge Amado, illustrated by Carybé:
a Spoted Cat and Swallow Sihné...an impossible love story
É argentino, é brasileiro, é quichua,
é asteca, é inca, é carioca por bossa
mas baiano por fé.
É amigo do mundo inteiro
menos de quem náo dá pé.
Canta cantigas de Cuzco
da Havana e do Tremenbé.
É um sambista milongueiro
Bate um violáo de terreiro.
E é santo de cadomblé.
*Vincius de Moraes*
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