Neo-Concrete Group

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The Neo-Concrete Group was a Brazilian avant-garde art movement formed in the late 1950s that emphasized subjectivity, viewer participation, and sensory experience as a reaction against the strict rationalism of Concrete art.

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Neo-Concrete Group canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Brazilian art movement
art movement
artisticFocus phenomenological experience
sensory experience
subjectivity
viewer participation
artisticPeriod late 1950s
coreConcept active role of the spectator
art as quasi-body
integration of art and life
rejection of purely mathematical structure
country Brazil
dissolutionTime early 1960s
founder Amílcar de Castro NERFINISHED
Ferreira Gullar NERFINISHED
Franz Weissmann NERFINISHED
Lygia Clark NERFINISHED
Lygia Pape NERFINISHED
Reinaldo Jardim NERFINISHED
Theon Spanudis NERFINISHED
genre abstract art
geometric abstraction
hasManifesto Neo-Concrete Manifesto NERFINISHED
hasMember Amílcar de Castro NERFINISHED
Ferreira Gullar NERFINISHED
Franz Weissmann NERFINISHED
Hélio Oiticica NERFINISHED
Lygia Clark NERFINISHED
Lygia Pape NERFINISHED
Reinaldo Jardim NERFINISHED
Theon Spanudis NERFINISHED
Willys de Castro NERFINISHED
influenced Brazilian contemporary art
installation art
participatory art
relational aesthetics
influencedBy Gestalt psychology NERFINISHED
Maurice Merleau-Ponty NERFINISHED
phenomenology
language Portuguese
location Rio de Janeiro NERFINISHED
manifestoAuthor Ferreira Gullar NERFINISHED
manifestoPublicationYear 1959
movementType Neo-Concrete art NERFINISHED
opposedTo pure geometric abstraction
strict rationalism
precededBy Concrete art NERFINISHED
reactionAgainst Concrete art NERFINISHED
startTime 1959

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Lygia Pape (artist) memberOf Neo-Concrete Group
subject surface form: Lygia Pape
Lygia Pape memberOf Neo-Concrete Group
Hélio Oiticica associatedWith Neo-Concrete Group