US EditionTeresinha Soares, Brazilian Artist Behind Erotic-Inflected Works That Slyly Defied Taboos, Dies at 99
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Teresinha Soares, Brazilian Artist Behind Erotic-Inflected Works That Slyly Defied Taboos, Dies at 99
Teresinha Soares, the Brazilian artist whose paintings and installations from the 1960s and ’70s challenged gendered-conventions of how women were both treated in Brazilian society and depicted throughout art history, died on March 31 in Belo Horizonte. She was 99 years old. She had been hospitalized after breaking her femur and never recovered, according to her daughter, artist Valeska Soares, as reported by Brazilian newspaper Estado de Mina…
Teresinha Soares, artist who brought sex and feminism to Pop art, 1927–2026
Teresinha Soares, Mamãe eu quero (Mummy I wanna), c. 1960s. Courtesy Gomide & co, São Paulo Teresinha Soares, the Brazilian artist whose Pop work was infused with sexual politics, has died. Born in Minas Gerais, Soares studied at the Universidad Mineira das Artes in Belo Horizonte, graduating in 1965 as Brazil’s military dictatorship was beginning to clamp down on radical expression in the arts. Her paintings nonetheless included mouths, breasts…
He died in the morning of this summer, 31st, the artist Teresinha Soares, who discussed the female body from works that mix eroticism and cr tic. She was 99 years old. Read more (03/31/2026)
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