{"id":1038,"date":"2026-10-23T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/santa-cecilia-school-of-music-and-arts-1982-1985-my-first\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T15:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T18:01:47","slug":"santa-cecilia-school-of-music-and-arts-1982-1985-my-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/santa-cecilia-school-of-music-and-arts-1982-1985-my-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Cec\u00edlia School of Music and Arts 1982-1985: My First Art Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"931\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/08-santa-cecilia-minhas-primeiras-aul-931x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A grid of childhood still life studies in pastel and watercolour\" class=\"wp-image-1026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/08-santa-cecilia-minhas-primeiras-aul-931x1024.jpg 931w, https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/08-santa-cecilia-minhas-primeiras-aul-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/08-santa-cecilia-minhas-primeiras-aul-768x845.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/08-santa-cecilia-minhas-primeiras-aul-11x12.jpg 11w, https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/08-santa-cecilia-minhas-primeiras-aul.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was eight when I began attending the Santa Cec\u00edlia School of Music and Arts in Capanema, a neighborhood of Curitiba. I remember the woman who owned the school. It was there that I learned the foundations of academic fine art, working with charcoal, dry pastel and oil pastel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was very restless \u2014 and I still am. The school owner eventually stopped teaching children under fifteen. I still tell the story with a laugh and joke that my restlessness had something to do with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have several works from that period. Some have survived better than others. Looking at them again, I find still-life studies, flowers and birds, along with early exercises in observation and composition. They record a boy discovering materials and learning how to look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These drawings hold an important part of my beginning. Decades later, I am glad to share them as living memories of my artistic education.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was eight when I began attending the Santa Cec\u00edlia School of Music and Arts in Capanema, a neighborhood of Curitiba. I remember the woman who owned the school. It was there that I learned the foundations of academic fine art, working with charcoal, dry pastel and oil pastel. I was very restless \u2014 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}