{"id":244,"date":"2015-10-28T17:41:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T17:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2015-11-28T16:32:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T16:32:57","slug":"artist-spotlight-matheus-goulart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/artist-spotlight-matheus-goulart\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Spotlight: Matheus Goulart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tell us about your first exposure to the arts<\/strong><br \/>\nI was 12 and I saw graffiti in the streets of Brazil and realized my dream was to create. As I got older, I was started working in Brazil with my family, we owned an interior design company and I was always working, creating beautiful homes and restaurants and I really liked it. It came naturally to me and I knew I wanted to be an artist. The art scene in Brazil is big. I\u2019m kind of famous there, haha. My art always sells in Brazil, and they know me. I moved to NYC 4 yeas ago and now I\u2019m trying to fulfill my dreams and show my work here and be just as successful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who has influenced you the most<\/strong><br \/>\nArtists influence me! I\u2019m striving to show people who has influenced me. Like Basquait, I use a lot of colors, Caravaggio and religion I try to incorporate that and Picasso and his faces which you can see in my work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What inspires you?<\/strong><br \/>\nA few things. One is when I&#8217;m painting I always think how the piece is going to look in a certain place. I love architecture and envisioning where a painting will hang. The other thing is people. I love people, random people and random faces.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts on the intersection of fashion &amp; art<\/strong><br \/>\nI love fashion. I studied at FIT and took some courses when I first moved here. Alexander McQueen will always be my favorite though. There aren\u2019t many people that I like in the fashion world and he was one of them. He was cool and I was so inspired by his creativity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s next for you<\/strong><br \/>\nA lot of traveling! Next up is Barcelona, Switzerland and then Art Basel in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How can we follow you<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/matheusgoulart_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@matheusgoulart_<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell us about your first exposure to the arts<br \/>\nI was 12 and I saw graffiti in the streets of Brazil and realized my dream was to create. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}