[1] He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Faculty of Santa Marcelina [pt], São Paulo, Brazil in 2009.
Characterized by their subtle rendition of light and a meditative quality, Arruda's landscapes are charged with visual as well as metaphysical questions.
[1][4] Lucas Arruda's work and research develops fundamentally around landscape and light as well-defined themes within art historical canon in order to examine complex contemporary mental states.
[1] His work is often displayed in series of small-format paintings grouped under the title "Deserto-Modelo", a term he borrowed from the Brazilian poet Joao Cabral de Melo Neto in order to emphasize the idea of prototype and repetition,[5] "allied to the metaphor of the desert understood as an atemporal place that can't be grasped through language".
[10] This publication featured a previously unpublished painting by Arruda to accompany the poem "La Maison des Sables" (1965) by French poet and post-colonial philosopher Édouard Glissant.