Clarovermelho e Claroverde: the Neoconcrete paintings of Aluisio Carvao/Clarovermelho e Claroverde: as pinturas neoconcretas de Aluisio Carvao.

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Author: Zalinda Cartaxo
Date: Jan-June 2018
From: GAMA(Issue 11)
Publisher: Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa
Document Type: In memóriam
Length: 2,147 words

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The eminent temporal character of the Clarovermelho and Claroverde paintings, both from 1959, by the Brazilian painter Aluisio Carvao, reveals proximity to European constructivist practices reviewed in Concretism and Neoconcretism in Brazil. Both have a spiral structure whose temporality and becoming are perceived in a centrifugal or centripetal way. The space-temporal structure announces the phenomenal character ofNeoconcretism, in which the experimental and processual aspects gain relevant dimensions. Keywords: painting / space / time. O eminente carater temporal das pinturas Clarovermelho e Claroverde, ambas de 1959, do pintor brasileiro Aluisio Carvao, revela proximidade com as praticas construtivistas europeias revistas no ambito do Concretismo e Neoconcretismo no Brasil. Ambas possuem uma estrutura espiralada cuja temporalidade e devir percebem-se de modo centrifugo ou centripeto. A estrutura espaco-temporal anuncia o carater fenomenal do Neoconcretismo, em que os aspectos experimental e processual ganham dimensoes relevantes. Palavras chave: pintura / espaco / tempo.
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