Brazil
Art from Brazil, from colonial Baroque carving and 1920s modernism to Neo-Concrete art, Brasília's architecture and contemporary installation.
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In the gold-mining towns of Minas Gerais, the sculptor and architect Aleijadinho carved soapstone prophets for the sanctuary at Congonhas in the first years of the 19th century, a high point of colonial Baroque. Modern art arrived loudly with São Paulo's Modern Art Week of 1922. Tarsila do Amaral's Abaporu (1928), a giant-footed figure beside a cactus, became a symbol of a homegrown modernism.
After 1945, geometric abstraction took hold. In Rio, the Neo-Concrete artists broke with strict rules to involve the viewer's body: Lygia Clark's hinged metal Bichos can be refolded by hand, and Hélio Oiticica's Parangolés are capes made to be worn in dance. Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa planned the new capital, Brasília, and Roberto Burle Marx laid out gardens and the wave-patterned Copacabana promenade. Ernesto Neto and Vik Muniz carry that tradition of material invention forward.
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