Milton Dacosta was a visual artist who had a linear career with intense production. In the beginning, his works had a strong figurative character, which is quite common among those who awaken to art early.
Little by little, he discovered new techniques and tested them. He soon discovered his own identity, which brought a sensitive poetry to rational constructivism, expressed through paintings that brought to the surface a lyrical abstraction formed by an intelligent game of vertical and horizontal lines that spoke perfectly with the few geometric elements on his canvases.
This phase represented the highest point of his career. However, not in a popular way. This is because the artists of the period admired him precisely for this more introspective, personal and, in a certain way, more mysterious work.
However, he rose to fame when he painted canvases with female images. For some critics, although this figurative moment brought notoriety to the artist, it was his least creative period and of lowest artistic quality.
In this context, it is interesting to note that although art experts to this day praise Milton Dacosta's works with constructivist aesthetics, many of them are still not known by the general public.