Manoel de Almeida Cavalcanti, better known as Manoel da Marinheira was one of the most important Brazilian sculptors who made history in the small Boca da Mata, Alagoas, 68 km from Maceio. He was born in 1917 and from an early age helped his father in the timber tract, making small toys for himself. His father, in addition to working in the fields, did saints and wooden animal figures. It was the 14-year-old Manoel took one hiding his father's tool and made his first sculpture, a rabbit. That's how it started. According to his son André, the Marinheira name began with his grandfather, father Manoel. "He got on a ship and did not want to leave here. Her grandmother became known as the Marinheira and when my father was born, became the Manoel da Marinheira ".
Was working with wood Manoel da Marinheira held her family. Using as raw material trunks jackfruit, Marinheira could fabricate for years of toil hundred pieces, portraying animals of the Brazilian fauna, often in large proportions, especially the cats. The talented artist made his works became known nationally. This visibility began in the late 60's when the business man Jorge Tenorio took up residence in Boca da Mata and collecting its parts. In the 70s, when the photographer Celso Brandão and the artist Fernando Lopes met the sculptor, also they began to take an interest in their work and to disseminate them together with artists and intellectuals. From obscurity in which he lived to the capital of the lights was a leap. Manoel da Marinheira faced this change naturally, gratitude and hard work. He was pleased by the art of taming the wood that made the artist worked up when the view allowed him. Fortunately this journey was long and extensive production of sculptor is now held by museums and collectors around the country.
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