Nide's Career and Awards
Nide
is a well recognized painter in Brazil and her career is full of prizes.
Eronildes da Silva Bacellar, Nide, was born in 1927, in Aiquara, State of Bahia, Brazil.
In 1963, she attends to the Escola de Belas Artes, in Salvador, with Emídio Magalhães, as teacher. In 1971, she improves her studies in arts in Rio de Janeiro. Since then, she becomes self-taught, developing her own techniques of painting and her own style.
In 1975, she becomes an representative, in Salvador, of the Associação de Artistas Plásticos do Distrito Federal. At that time she starts to teaching drawing and painting at her atelier.
In 1978, she is highlighted in the book Arte Nordeste Hoje, edited in Recife, state of Pernambuco. She also participates in the Salão de Arte do Rio de Janeiro promoted by the Associação Brasileira de Imprensa.
In 1979, she attends to a course of Critics in Arts, in Brasília, in the Federal District, sponsored by Funarte (Fundação Nacional de Arte) and taught by Romano Galleffi. In Recife, she receives the title of Highlighted Painter at the VII Grande Noite de Elegância e Destaque do Nordeste.
After so many awards, Nide continues her search for perfection. Her uncountable admirers spread her works around Brazil and the world.
