The Artist
Jandyra Waters
Long forgotten by the greater artistic milieu, Jandyra Waters at one hundred years old has now become a rage among today’s collectors of Brazilian geometric abstractionist painting. The artist, who is also a haiku poet with three published books, is one of the last of the artists who forged geometric abstractionism in Brazil’s 1950s along with Alfredo Volpi (1896-1988), Aluisio Carvão (1920-2001), São Paulo’s concretists Willys de Castro (1926-1988) and Hercules Barsotti (1914-2010), and Rio’s counterpart, neoconcretism, founded by Lygia Clark (1920-1988) and Helio Oiticica (1937-1980), all of whom reached prominence.
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