In Brazil, the Abstraction arose in the 1950s in the last century. One of the first abstract painters was Brazilian Antonio Bandeira. At the beginning of his career, he produced a figurative work.
In the year 1951, was organized in St. Paul, the First International Biennial of Art, the Museum of Modern Art. The Abstraction was already present in the show, causing interest and controversy.
The first abstract painters Brazilians attended the First International Biennial. Antonio Bandeira, Iberê Camargo, Lygia Clark, Manabu Mabe, Alfredo Volpi, Milton Dacosta, Waldemar Cordeiro, Ivan Serpa.
In 1952, formed a group of artists who met to study the abstractionism.This group became known as Break group, was formed by Waldemar Cordeiro, Geraldo de Barros, Lothar Charoux among others.Increasingly, the abstract expressionism began to please, and to stand as an expression of Brazilian artists. New discoveries were made. The imagination and freedom of expression found a place, and offered new ways for artists.
Some followed the path of Geometric Abstraction and Volpi, and Reuben Valentine.
Other artists have chosen an informal abstract art, without worrying about lines, shapes and spaces well defined. When using large body movements and gestures with his brushes, the artist did not respect the limits of the lines, and blended the colors according to your taste and expression.
Paintings, prints and sculptures abstractionists emerged, and were settled in the last decades of the twentieth century. They include names such as Tomie Ohtake, one of the greatest expressions of abstract art in Brazil. His work expresses mixed structures with movement and delicacy. The technique and expression are balanced, sometimes juxtaposed, and others, poetically approximate.
In the 1960s, the Brazilian art continued in various directions. For example, the huge abstract sculptures have become real experiences that caused new feelings in public. The artist used various materials and forms that occupied large spaces.
Abstract painting flat "jumped" the screen to fill the space with three-dimensional objects. Mobiles, boxes, tissue tunnel. Bags, straws, tents, and many other materials, became resources, transformed by the expression of abstract artist in works of art. According to Hélio Oiticica, are called "environmental manifestations."
The environmental artist wanted the audience to participate in the work.Lygia Clark was one of the artists that stood out, producing a work that drew everyone's attention. Captivating, and at the same time, challenging. The Creeps, his famous geometric constructions in metal, live and move through the hinges, leaving the viewer to step in and interact with the work.
New materials and new techniques were added to abstract art. collages, sculptures and photographs began to be used by artists, often blending the abstract with the figurative, in a provocative and questioning.
Among the sculptors, Caciporé Torres and Amilcar de Castro chose sculpture in iron and steel. Krajcberg used trunks, vines, trees and plants to denounce the destruction of nature by burning. Others liked to carve in marble and bronze, as Bruno Giorgi.
The American influence brought to Brazil the "pop art". The artists mixed texts, phrases, images and colors on the screen, forming a fairly popular than was Brazil in the 1960s. Wesley Duke Lee, Carlos Vergara and Rubens Gerchman are just some of the artists representing this phase of contemporary painting .
In 80 years, the Brazilian art found in young people, their strength and their expression. Names emerged as Luiz Pizarro, Nuno Ramos, Leda Catunda, Daniel Senise, Carlito Carvalhosa, Rodrigo Andrade and others. Coinciding with the opening policy that the country was, once again the art gives way to new expressions and representations.
The main themes are addressed by the artists in an interesting and bold.Materials of everyday life are transformed into non-conventional media. It is time for new figurative expressions.
Abstract art was very important for the evolution of our artistic expression. The Abstraction allowed our artists to free themselves from conventional techniques, figures, graphics, and rigid forms. They could pursue with more intensity the truest spirit of art: emotional themselves, and others.
The art is always renewed. For art is life. New paths will outline our emotions. New paths will indicate our achievements. For the art reflects the society. Their anguish, their frustrations. The company feeds the art.In form, line, color, brush stroke of the artist. In space and time of art, we show our desires, our hopes or our anger. And reveal the art in Brazil, as always revealed, the man: the man from Brazil.
