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The Recent Surreal Paintings of Rafael Silveira

Rafael Silveira’s surreal world expands in new paintings from the Brazil-based artist. The artist was most recently part of the "Mother & Child" group show at Dorothy Circus Gallery, with the below painting, “Trifacial Mother,” featured. Rafael Silveira Silveira was last featured on HiFructose.com here.

Rafael Silveira’s surreal world expands in new paintings from the Brazil-based artist. The artist was most recently part of the “Mother & Child” group show at Dorothy Circus Gallery, with the below painting, “Trifacial Mother,” featured. Rafael Silveira Silveira was last featured on HiFructose.com here.

On “Trifacial Mother,” the artist says this: “The protagonist of the female central figure reveals three different faces: in the spectator’s right, the real raw primitive and obscure instinct side; in the left, the artificial persona, or how the woman act in the social theatre and how society seems her. Finally at the center: the mother. A unique, almost supernatural being, made of pure love and powerful enough to create life.”

See more of the painter’s recent work below.

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