Brazil. 1937 - 1980
Neo-concrete movement painting and sculpture
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Born 1956 Santiago, Chile. Known for: Installation, sculpture, graphics, photography, filmmaking, genocide themes.
Alfredo Jaar was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1956. He attended Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura, Santiago (1979), and Universidad de Chile, Santiago (1981). In installations, photographs,... Read full biography
Alfredo Jaar was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1956. He attended Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura, Santiago (1979), and Universidad de Chile, Santiago (1981). In installations, photographs, films, and community-based projects, Jaar explores the public’s desensitization to images and the... Read full biography
Alfredo Jaar was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1956. He attended Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura, Santiago (1979), and Universidad de Chile, Santiago (1981). In installations, photographs, films, and community-based projects, Jaar explores the public’s desensitization to images and the limitations of art to represent events such as genocides, epidemics, and famines. Jaar’s work bears witness to military conflicts, political corruption, and imbalances of power between industrialized... Read full biography
Alfredo Jaar was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1956. He attended Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura, Santiago (1979), and Universidad de Chile, Santiago (1981). In installations, photographs, films, and community-based projects, Jaar explores the public’s desensitization to images and the limitations of art to represent events such as genocides, epidemics, and famines. Jaar’s work bears witness to military conflicts, political corruption, and imbalances of power between industrialized and developing nations. Subjects addressed in his work include the holocaust in Rwanda, gold mining in Brazil, toxic pollution in Nigeria, and issues related to the border between Mexico and the United States. Many of Jaar’s works are extended... Read full biography
Alfredo Jaar was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1956. He attended Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura, Santiago (1979), and Universidad de Chile, Santiago (1981). In installations, photographs, films, and community-based projects, Jaar explores the public’s desensitization to images and the limitations of art to represent events such as genocides, epidemics, and famines. Jaar’s work bears witness to military conflicts, political corruption, and imbalances of power between industrialized and developing nations. Subjects addressed in his work include the holocaust in Rwanda, gold mining in Brazil, toxic pollution in Nigeria, and issues related to the border between Mexico and the United States. Many of Jaar’s works are extended meditations or elegies, including Muxima (2006), a video that portrays and contrasts the oil economy and extreme poverty of Angola, and... Read full biography
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Brazil. Born 1964
Large scale Olympic game mural, racism and colonialism themes
Argentina, France. 1923 - 2007
Op art, installations, chromocinetism, acrylic glass, kinetic sculpture
Argentina, Brazil. 1920 - 2013
Mixed media social themed artwork, conceptualism, ceramics
Venezuela, Germany. 1912 - 1994
Wire and metal sculpture, kinetic art, assemblage, drawing, collage
Brazil, Italy. 1919 - 1988
Drawing on rice paper, monotypes, painting, sculpture
Brazil. 1903 - 1962
Neo-realist painting
New York, California / Canada. 1945 - 2003
Performance art-light explosions, video art
New York / Netherlands, South Africa. Born 1953
Abject figurative and portrait painting and drawing-narrative
New York / Puerto Rico. 1924 - 2005
Abstract expressionist painting
Mexico. 1923 - 1985
Painting and sculpture
Brazil, France. 1930 - 1990
Non objective painting and constructivist sculpture
Illinois / Puerto Rico. 1955 - 2018
Modernist figure-to abstraction, still life, portrait
New York, Arizona. Born 1957
Modernist cartoon, text with drawings, satire, illustration
Florida / Cuba. Born 1948
Symbolist landscape, genre
New York / Brazil. Born 1960
Decorative collage, geometric design
New York / Austria. 1947 - 2012
Large-scale and whimsical sculpture, installation, painting
Massachusetts, New York / France. 1926 - 2014
Appropriation art, pop art painting and sculpture
France, Brazil. 1897 - 1976
Cubist, modernist painting
Venezuela, France. 1923 - 2019
Kinetic and op art, painting, design, graphics, teaching
New York / Spain, France, Uruguay. 1874 - 1949
Constructivist painting-geometric, teaching
New York / Cuba. 1915 - 2022
Pure abstract geometric white and black painting, minimalism
New York, Connecticut. Born 1949
Non objective-funk, semi-figurative, prints
New York. Born 1947
Funk biomorph, non ob-geometric
Trinidad and Tobago, England. Born 1968
Mixed media mod Nigerian figure painting
Colombia, Mexico. 1928 - 2010
Mod printmaking, painting, engraving and design
New York / Germany, Austria. 1953 - 1997
Mixed media sculpture, collage, installation
New York / Argentina. Born 1961
Abstract mixed-media painting, figurative-grids, design, theatre producer
Argentina, France. 1915 - 2014
Painting and sculpture, kinetic art
New York. Born 1949
Word play, non objective, views, sculpture
Ohio / Mexico. 1915 - 2000
Abstract painting, theatre set design
Florida / Cuba. 1950 - 1991
Ceramics with painted iconography, animal and figure shapes