Família Do Fuzileiro Naval 1935

Here's Guignard's "Família Do Fuzileiro Naval," and I'm thinking he made it with oil on canvas, maybe while listening to some bossa nova. It's giving me a feeling, like a memory, but also it feels a bit like outsider art, you know? There’s something deeply personal about it, the way the family is composed and the colours so luminous, it’s as if Guignard made the work entirely from feeling. I love the impasto work on the yellow dress, how each little dab of paint suggests the ruffled volume. I imagine Guignard, brush in hand, thinking about the light as he worked. The white of the marine uniforms set against the darker skin tones really pops out and makes you look and look again. It has a certain theatrical quality, a nod perhaps to other painters like Manet or even Velázquez. You can feel the history of painting in Guignard’s brushstrokes. It's all one big conversation, art, isn't it?