Brazil - Part 5 More Encounters in Rio

Alvaro Seixas

Alvaro Seixas at Amarelonegro

Brazil Paiva at the National Fine Arts Museum

Alberto Guinard, Lea & Maura, 1940, 86 x 104 cm, oil on canvas - at the National Fine Arts Museum

Cristina Canale at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio

A group of small canvases by Fabio Miguez in the racks at Anita Schwartz

Rodrigo Andrade in the racks at Anita Schwartz

Manfredo de Souzanetto at Gustavo Rebello

Julio Villani

Julio Villani

Luciano Figueiredo

Luciano Figueiredo, Studio View, Rio

Luciano Figueiredo, Studio View, Rio

BRAZIL - Part 1

In July, I will be spending three weeks in Brazil (much more on that to come) -- and in preparation, I've been looking at a lot of Brazilian painting. Geometric abstract painting has been deeply embraced in Brazil, and still is -- creating a sustained legacy of rich and varied work. I am just beginning to scratch the surface of this parallel universe of rigorous and beautiful painting by artists who are virtually unknown to the NY art world. Here is just a small sampling to begin -- with more to come. Images from the internet.

Gisele Camargo

Milton Dacosta

Antonio Dias

Jose Carlos Cesar Ferreira

Marco Giannotti

Fabio Miguez

Abraham Palatnik

Dudi Maia Rosa

Julio Villani

...And last but not least -- some new work by Gonçalo Ivo, who has a show opening July 14 at Galeria Anita Schwartz in Rio de Janeiro (more on that too).

Gonçalo Ivo, 2010, 200 x 400 cm, oil & tempera on canvas

Gonçalo Ivo, 2010, 260 x 660 cm, oil & tempera on canvas

Gonçalo Ivo, studio view 2010 (photos by Gonçalo)