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Fig. 1 - Alexander Calder, Folding with Red Disc, Castle Square, Stuttgart, Germany 1973, featured. Photo: Rufus46, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Contemporary Art, Optical Art – Op Art, by Rosângela Vig

You can also listen to this article in the voice of own Plastic Artist Rosângela Vig: The vulgar believe that it is easy to escape reality, when it's the hardest in the world. It's easy to say or paint a thing that lacks ...

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Fig. 1 – Discovery of Earth, 1941, Tempera with Glued Support on black paper, 28,6 x 29 cm, featured. Rights João Candido Portinari. Photo: Candido Portinari, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Modern Art – Expressionism in Brazil – Portinari o Pintor e o Poeta, by Rosângela Vig

made a stop, one stop for the train to carry coffee, Before, difficult roads, only ox carts transited, taking days and days. After, a house here, another there. (PORTINARI, 2018, p.19) Portinari's Poetry is intertwined with his Painting ...

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Fig. 3 – Manabu Mabe, OSD, 50 x 60 cm, 1989, MB02, Work with certificate, Brazil Gallery. Link to the work.

First Traces of Modern Art – Abstract Expressionism in Brazil by Rosângela Vig

You can also listen to this article in the voice of own Plastic Artist Rosângela Vig: filling up the conversations, come out of the dimness, jumping, the frogs. The light dazzles them. In a roar that lands, howls the bullfrog: – “my father went to ...

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Fig. 6 – The Discovery of the Earth, Cândido Portinari, Mural Painting in the Library of Congress Building, Washington, 1941. Photo: Candido Portinari, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

First Traces of Modern Art – Expressionism in Brazil by Rosângela Vig

You can also listen to this article in the voice of own Plastic Artist Rosângela Vig: my heart feels very sad… While the gray of goose bumps dialogues a lament with the wind… my heart feels very happy! This upturned chill gives ...

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Figure 2 – Museum entrance.

El Greco Museum by Rosângela Vig

Praise beautiful things, receive them cheerfully in the spirit, to turn them into food, and thus become noble and good (…) welcome it with tenderness and recognizes it as a relative, the better the more you’ll have been prepared for this by education. ...

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Fig. 4 – Untitled, c. 1952-1956, Jackson Pollock, ink on paper, 17 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches, 44,5 x 5x,5 cm. Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY, USA.

Modern Art – Abstract Expressionism by Rosângela Vig

You can also listen to this article in the voice of own Plastic Artist Rosângela Vig: You will have heard these expressions or even applied them: ‘Oh, what a glacial painting!’, there is the impression of glacial air entering through an open window ...

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Fig. 3 – Boy on the Slope, Eliseu Visconti, oil on canvas, 51 x 73 cm, 1889. Private Collection.

First Traces of Modern Art – Impressionism in Brazil by Rosângela Vig

You can also listen to this article in the voice of own Plastic Artist Rosângela Vig: Motherland, I throb in you, in your wood, wherever I go! And your perfume and shade and sun and dew! And, in sap, to your cry ...

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Fig. 12 – Salvador Dali, Daddy Longlegs of the Evening Hope!, 1940, oil on canvas, 40,64 cm x 50,8 cm, The Dalí Museum, Present of A. Reynolds & Eleanor Morse. Copyright: Worldwide rights ©Salvador Dalí. Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí (Artists Rights Society), 2017 / In the USA ©Salvador Dalí Museum, Inc. St. Petersburg, FL 2017.

Modern Art – Surrealism by Rosângela Vig

You can also listen to this article in the voice of own Plastic Artist Rosângela Vig: When I look at the starry sky, I find it small. Maybe it was me who grew up, or it was the universe that shrank. Unless both at the same ...

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Fig. 4 – Vasily Kandinsky, Little Painting with Yellow (Improvisation), 1914, oil on canvas, 31 x 39 5/8 polegadas (78.7 x 100.6 cm) Framed: 32 3/4 x 41 1/2 x 2 1/2 poleinches.2 x 105.4 x 6.4 cx),cmeatured. Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950-134-103.

Modern Art – Abstractionism by Rosângela Vig

You can also listen to this article in the voice of own Plastic Artist Rosângela Vig: Alumbramento I saw the heavens! I saw the skies! Ah this angelic whiteness No sad pejos and without veils! Not a cloud of bitterness Come ...

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Fig. 1 – House at the Black Madonna, Museum of Decorative Arts. Prague.eu: The Official Tourist Website for Prague. Photo: Ondrej Kocourek.

Modern Art – Cubism by Rosângela Vig

You can also listen to this article in the voice of own Plastic Artist Rosângela Vig: Orpheus Admire the remarkable power this noble and commendable online: It is the voice that came from the light resonating What speaks Hermes Trismegistus in his ...

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