The Triumphs of Talent and Hard Work

By Raimundo Nonato Batista

        Clovis Junior has succeeded while still young in conquering the spaces that so many other artists, who are also creative and talented, have only reached after a long journey, inspiration rhyming with perspiration.

        This young artist from Paraiba State succeeds in transforming the simplest images into works of art, as if using magic spells, his lines and colours providing a translation of their simple beauty that seduces us all.

        And there I go, setting off on paths that are not mine, penetrating into a land that I do not know, getting lost in the daring of wanting to explain the reasons behind success and creativity.

        As I am neither an art critic nor an initiate of the specialized language that expresses and translates the itineraries of the creator and his work, I must limit myself to offering the opinion of the lover of artistic creativity, such as I am, and I proclaim this with vanity and pride, escaping from the compulsive temptation to be like the shoemaker of the legend and to stay with the sandals.

        Yes, I am going to speak of the motifs, the figures and the colours that Clovis Junior uses to express his vision of the universe that surrounds us all with its marvellous beauty. I believe that the artist’s originality resides exactly in the capacity to transmit,