Victor Brecheret
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Victor Brecheret |
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Male |
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Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Nationality: |
Brazilian |
| Birth: |
1894 |
| Death: |
1955 |
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Modernism |
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Sculpture
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Biography
| Brecheret studied at the Sao Paulo Liceu of Arts and Crafts and in 1913 left for Rome, where he stayed for six years and completed his studies with Arturo Dazzi (1881-1966). During this period, he fell under the influence of Emile-Antoine Bourdelle and especially the Symbolist sculpture of Ivan Mestrovic. Upon his return to Sao Paulo in 1919, the innovative strength of its work immediately caught the interest of the young intellectuals and artists that shortly after brought Modernism to Brazil with the Week of modern art in 1922 in Sao Paulo. Although he returned to Europe in 1921, before this took place, Brecheret contributed several works in the event, characterized by an extreme simplification of the figure and by a geometric styling that prefigured Art Deco. In 1920, he created the medal commemorating the centenary of Brazil independence and was commissioned by the government of Sao Paulo to create a great monument to the pioneers in the Ibirapuera Park in Sao Paulo. When Brecheret returned to Paris, he discovered the work of Constantin Brancusi and won a prize in the autumn Salon of 1921 with his sculpture Temple of my career. After some time in Rome returned to Sao Paulo, where during the 1930S in particular was active in modernist events. In the last part of his life, he temporarily abandoned his preferred medium, marble, to carry out a series of works in bronze or in other types of stone, in which sought to transform indigenous folklore brazilian in a deeply telluric, organic abstraction. |
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