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
Neo-Concrete Manifesto 1

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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
Ferreira Gullar
Franz Weissmann
Lygia Clark
Lygia Pape
Reinaldo Jardim
Theon Spanudis
genre abstract art
geometric abstraction
hasManifesto Neo-Concrete Manifesto
linked to: Neo-Concrete Group
hasMember Amílcar de Castro
Ferreira Gullar
Franz Weissmann
Hélio Oiticica
Lygia Clark
Lygia Pape
Reinaldo Jardim
Theon Spanudis
Willys de Castro
influenced Brazilian contemporary art
installation art
participatory art
relational aesthetics
influencedBy Gestalt psychology
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
phenomenology
language Portuguese
location Rio de Janeiro
manifestoAuthor Ferreira Gullar
manifestoPublicationYear 1959
movementType Neo-Concrete art
opposedTo pure geometric abstraction
strict rationalism
precededBy Concrete art
reactionAgainst Concrete art
startTime 1959

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Lygia Pape memberOf Neo-Concrete Group
subject linked to: Lygia Pape (artist)
Lygia Pape memberOf Neo-Concrete Group
Hélio Oiticica associatedWith Neo-Concrete Group
Neo-Concrete Group hasManifesto Neo-Concrete Manifesto
linked to: Neo-Concrete Group