Modernism in Brazil: a turning point in the art history

Por Paulo Varella - novembro 28, 2019
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Modernism in Brazil was a post-World War I aesthetic movement that tried to bring national life and thought into line with modern times, creating new Brazilian-origin methods of expression in the arts. In the struggle against academicism and the European influence that dominated art in Brazil, the modernists rejected the traditional dependence on Portuguese literary […]

5 Brazilian artists from the neo-concrete movement you need to know

Por Paulo Varella - junho 25, 2019
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The Neo-Concrete Movement (1959–61) was a Brazilian art movement, a group that splintered off from the larger Concrete Art movement prevalent in Latin America and in other parts of the world. The Neo-Concretes emerged from Rio de Janeiro’s Grupo Frente. They rejected the pure rationalist approach of concrete art and embraced a more phenomenological and less scientific art. Ferreira Gullar inspired Neo-Concrete philosophy […]