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Course: Modernisms 1900-1980 > Unit 7
Lesson 4: Constructivism- Geometric Abstraction in South America, an introduction
- Joaquín Torres-García, Composition
- Torres García, Inverted America
- Lygia Clark, Bicho
- Breaking the Frame, the Concrete Art movement
- Painting in an Industrial Age, the Concrete Art movement
- The Challenge of a Straight Line, the Concrete Art movement
- Rhod Rothfuss, Yellow Quadrangle
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Breaking the Frame, the Concrete Art movement
Created by Getty Museum and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. Discover how Argentine and Brazilian artists in the 1940s broke from linear perspective to create art in unique shapes, starting the Concrete Art movement. This video is one of three that accompanied the “Making Art Concrete: Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros” (September 16, 2017 – February 11, 2018) at the Getty Museum. For more information visit http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/cisneros. Created by Getty Museum.