Aldo Cláudio Felipe Bonadei, widely known as Aldo Bonadei (São Paulo

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 June 17th, 1906 — São Paulo, January 16th, 1974) was a Brazil

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ian painter

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. As a member of the Grupo Santa Helena

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 he was distinguished for his erudition.

His varied interests made him develop work in poetry

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, fashion

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 and theater. Bonadei was culturally important in the 1930s and 1940s, when modern art

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 was being consolidated in Brazil. He was a pioneer of the abstract art

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 in that country.

In the end of the 1950s

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, he worked as costume designer

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 for Nydia Lícia & Sérgio Cardoso company, and in two films by Walter Hugo Khoury.