
Abstraction (Abstração)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1949
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 10 3/4 × 14 3/4" (27.3 × 37.5 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Geraldo de Barros
Artist

Photography
Geraldo de Barros was a Brazilian photographer and graphic designer whose formal experiments in the 1950s anticipated much of modernist visual culture. Working in São Paulo during the postwar period, he developed a distinctive approach to photomontage and abstraction that drew from both European constructivism and indigenous Brazilian design traditions. His work bridged photography, graphic design, and printmaking, treating the photograph as a malleable compositional field rather than a documentary record.
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Record
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- Geraldo de Barros
- Year
- 1949
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 10 3/4 × 14 3/4" (27.3 × 37.5 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1949-M104658
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





