Construction 8
1955 · Alkyd on board
27 3/4 × 19 1/2 × 1" (70.5 × 49.5 × 2.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Aluisio Carvão
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- Birth yearArtsy· 85%
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Aluisio Carvão was a Brazilian painter and printmaker who developed a geometric visual language rooted in the chromatic intensity of landscape and light. Working primarily in oil and woodcut, his practice bridged European modernist formal investigation with a distinctly Brazilian approach to color. Active throughout the postwar period, Carvão synthesized abstraction with a sensibility grounded in the specific visual conditions of Brazil rather than pure geometric reduction.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 27d ago
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Museum of Modern Art
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