Artist

Maria Luiza de Azevedo Amaral

Maria Luiza de Azevedo Amaral is an artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Maria spent the 1940s sketching radios in her Rio living room, wires tangled like vines across the desk, every knob and dial a little landscape. She drew the same Murphy model over and over, not to fix it, but to understand how something man-made could hum with life.

See “Interior of a Murphy Radio” on the screen — the wires look alive, the metal parts almost breathing. That’s why her tiny drawings feel big: she taught a machine to pose.

Works by Maria Luiza de Azevedo Amaral

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

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