Brazilian artists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Chapters: Artur Barrio, Francisco Rodrigues da Silva, Carlos Latuff, Oscar Oiwa, Roberto Burle Marx, Aleijadinho, Hércules Florence, Valeria Roncoli, Anna Bella Geiger, Eduardo Kac, Vik Muniz, Cildo Meireles, Os Gêmeos, Cybèle Varela, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Silvia Poloto, Everaldo Coelho, Rubens Gerchman, Marcelo de Melo, Eduardo Recife, Nair de Tefé, Moysés Baumstein, Marilia Rocha, Abdias do Nascimento, Gustavo Mendonca, Marianne Peretti, Pedro Lobo, Laura Belém, Jelon Vieira, Marcello Dantas, Ernesto Neto, Francisco Brennand, Lygia Pape, Manoel da Costa Ataíde, Adriana Varejao, Augusto de Campos, Brígida Baltar, Sergio de Camargo, Ubirajara Fidalgo, Maristela Salvatori, TeleKommando, Rachel Rosalen, Mart'nália, Lia Menna Barreto, João Zero, Alain-Marcel Linse, Rubem Valentim, Giselda Leirner, List of Brazilian artists, Iran do Espirito Santo, Miguel Torres de Andrade, João Zeferino da Costa, Adriana Bertini, Abraham Palatnik, Roland Cabot. Excerpt: Artur Barrio (Artur Alipio Barrio de Sousa Lopes) is an artist who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Much of his work consists of installation pieces that create interaction with the public. Barrio engages the viewer as participant in his art, often without their knowledge that it is art in which they are participating. By doing so, the participant can have an experience not removed from life but rather incorporated into it. He wants to encourage contact with all of reality including the discards of life such as garbage. He wants us to recognize that this reality is just as real if we can see past the symbolic meanings we attach to these objects. (Manifesto MUD/MEAT SEWER) He was born in Porto, Portugal in 1945. In 1952, he spent six months in Angola "where he discovered the African culture." He then moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1955, returning to Portugal during the Portuguese revolution in 1974. In 1975 he moved to Paris and then in 1981 to "Amsterdam with a grant from BBK that is extended until 1984." Currently, he lives successively in Amsterdam, Aix-en-Provence and Rio de Janeiro. Barrio exhibits his work internationally. In 1967, Artur Barrio attended the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (School of Fine Arts), one of the centers of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. His teachers included Onofre Penteado, Abelardo Zaluar, Mário Barata and Ítalo Campofiorito. Artur Barrio is an extreme example of the development of art that took place during his early career. It was a time when barriers within art were being tested and pushed to the breaking point. Barrio expressed his understanding of these artistic forces in his work. We can see the imprint of his time on his work in the content, the materials, and the processes he employs in his work. He makes strong anti-art establishment statements showing a kinship with the Dada artists. He also displays his understanding the Fluxus ideas about flow, process and material usage. These influences combin