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Concrete art was an art movement with a strong emphasis on geometrical abstraction. The term was first formulated by Theo van Doesburg and was then used by him in 1930 to define the difference between his vision of art and that of other abstract artists of the time.
Peter C. Ruppert (1935–2019) [3] [4] was a businessman and Art collector, who started in the 70s of the 20th century to collect works of Concrete art with a focus on Concrete art after 1945. His collection includes around 418 works by 254 European Concrete art artists from the end of World War II onwards from almost all parts of Europe.
An important influence that can be seen in the magazine is from the Dutch artist Theo Van Doesburg. He formulated in “Basis of the Concrete painting”, in Paris, April 1930. [5] Van Doesburg described concrete art by stating, "1) Art is universal. 2) The work of art must be conceived and entirely shaped by the spirit before its execution.
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The Neo-Concrete Movement (1959–1961) was a Brazilian art movement, a group that splintered off from the larger Concrete Art movement prevalent in Latin America and in other parts of the world. The Neo-Concretes emerged from Rio de Janeiro’s Grupo Frente. They rejected the pure rationalist approach of concrete art and embraced more ...
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Mitchell was a member of the Design Advisory Board, Hammersmith College of Art, Trent Polytechnic, [1] Formwork Advisory Committee and the Concrete Society, and was a regular on the construction lecture circuit, both in his home country and abroad (especially the U.S.), being described as a "doyen of British muralists" at a presentation he gave ...