Lygia Pape
Initially inspired by the formal geometric abstraction of Concrete art, which emerged in Brazil in the early 1950s, Pape started out by making geometric constructions. She later tired of the severity of this prescriptive art form and moved beyond its constraints, becoming a founding member of the Neo-Concrete movement dedicated to the inclusion of art into everyday life. Pape broke away from preconceived artistic categories, and from the 1960s onward sought to inject new expressive formulae into abstract art. Challenging formal and conceptual boundaries and becoming a pioneer of Brazilian contemporary art. Claiming, “art is my way of understanding the world,” she worked in painting, printmaking, sculpture, dance, film, performance, and installation, always attempting to merge art and life.
Her prints and paintings combine the use of bold line and blocked colour in geometric shapes to create the abstract form and movement across her work, she takes this style into her sculptural work also creating large abstract geometric shape using colour to differentiate the forms. Through looking at Pape's work it has helped me distinguish a style within my own work in which i have taken forward within my own prints and paintings. The considered yet expressive use of shape and colour is something that i have used to experiment with,
Initially inspired by the formal geometric abstraction of Concrete art, which emerged in Brazil in the early 1950s, Pape started out by making geometric constructions. She later tired of the severity of this prescriptive art form and moved beyond its constraints, becoming a founding member of the Neo-Concrete movement dedicated to the inclusion of art into everyday life. Pape broke away from preconceived artistic categories, and from the 1960s onward sought to inject new expressive formulae into abstract art. Challenging formal and conceptual boundaries and becoming a pioneer of Brazilian contemporary art. Claiming, “art is my way of understanding the world,” she worked in painting, printmaking, sculpture, dance, film, performance, and installation, always attempting to merge art and life.
Her prints and paintings combine the use of bold line and blocked colour in geometric shapes to create the abstract form and movement across her work, she takes this style into her sculptural work also creating large abstract geometric shape using colour to differentiate the forms. Through looking at Pape's work it has helped me distinguish a style within my own work in which i have taken forward within my own prints and paintings. The considered yet expressive use of shape and colour is something that i have used to experiment with,
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| Tecelar, 1955 Helio Oiticica
Hélio Oiticica (1937–1980) was one of the most innovative Brazilian artists of the twentieth century and is now recognised as a highly significant figure in the development of contemporary art. Oiticica produced an outstanding body of work, which had its origins in the legacy of European Modernism as it developed in Brazil in the 1950s. But his unique and radical investigations led Oiticica to develop his artistic production in ever more inventive directions.
Through his work he was to challenge the traditional boundaries of art, and its relationship with life, and to undermine the separation of the art-object from the viewer, whom he turned into an active participant. Among Oiticica’s most original achievements was his inventive and uncompromising use of colour.
His unique style of using colour and shape harmoniously have made me consider how to depict my landscape photographs and drawings. Through researching his work i have taken a new approach in using abstract form and colour to represent a landscape.
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