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Born in Afrânio Peixôto,
Munícipe of Lençóis, State os Bahia,
in 1924. Went to live in São Paulo in 1960 and now
resides in Osasco. Started painting encouraged by another
primitive painter, Américo Mondañez.
Jos Luyten writes about him:
"He is the backwoosman from
Bahia, whose mixed ancestry of white man and Brasilian Indian
is responsible for the most popular literary expression among
us - the Cordel literature - (Literature in pamphlets inspired
in true stores). Thus it is not strange that his work is fundamentally
different from that of his countrymen of African origin".
"All his pictures are popular
chronicles of actual events and true to the facts of the backlands
of Bahia. The apparently grotesque figures are actually caricatures
through which an ordinary man sees reality. One senses frequently
a hint of conflict between the poor man and the powerful one
- the establishment - like the "Colonel" (chief
in rural area) bitten by a donkey or the priest who gambles
away his brood of chickens".
"All these are nothing but
simple observations of local flavour which transform Teles
into an artist in the true sense as he tries to depict the
world as he sees it".
"The simplicity of
the colours chosen by Teles remind us of a Waldomiro de Deus
and the stories he tries to tell are artistically equivalent
to the good "Cordel novels" and evoke the masterly
late Tio Quincas, of the backlands of São Paulo. The
other primitive artists who show at Praça da Replública
name him "the most primitive of the Praça".
Festa Junina
Voando sob
um guardachuva
O traquina
Assim é a Bahia
O encontro do juiz, da freira e o jeca
Assim é a natureza.
O
carroceiro
O pagador de promessas
Juazeiro de Padre Cícero
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