Grupo Frente

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Grupo Frente was a mid-1950s Brazilian art collective central to the development of Concrete and later Neo-Concrete art, known for its experimental, geometric abstraction and influential members such as Lygia Pape and Hélio Oiticica.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Brazilian art movement
art collective
activePeriod mid-1950s
artForm painting
printmaking
relief and object-based works
artisticPrinciple non-figurative art
rational composition
use of pure color and form
artisticStyle abstract art
associatedWith Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
basedIn Rio de Janeiro
country Brazil
culturalContext postwar Brazilian modernism
endTime 1956
exhibitedAt Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
focus experimental abstraction
geometric experimentation
foundedBy Ivan Serpa
genre geometric abstraction
hasInfluenceOn Hélio Oiticica’s early abstract paintings
Lygia Pape’s later Neo-Concrete works
historicalRole precursor of Neo-Concrete art in Brazil
influenced Brazilian contemporary art
Neo-Concrete movement
inspiredBy Constructivism
European Concrete art
linked to: Concrete art
knownFor collective exhibitions in Rio de Janeiro
experimental, geometric abstraction
language Portuguese
location Rio de Janeiro
movement Concrete art
Neo-Concrete art
notableMember Abraham Palatnik
Aluísio Carvão
Hélio Oiticica
Ivan Serpa
Lygia Clark
Lygia Pape
opposedTo figurative academic painting
region Southeast Brazil
relatedMovement Grupo Ruptura
startTime 1954

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Lygia Pape memberOf Grupo Frente
subject linked to: Lygia Pape (artist)
Hélio Oiticica memberOf Grupo Frente
Willys de Castro associatedWith Grupo Frente
Franz Weissmann memberOf Grupo Frente