Poesia concreta
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Poesia concreta was an avant-garde
movement that came on the 1950s in Brazil and Switzerland, initially in music
, but later in poetry
and plastic arts. The concretism
defended rationality
and rejected expressionism
, perhaps, lyric abstraction and randomness
. In their texts there is no intimism or worry about the subject, the obligation is to end up with the distinction between body and concept and create a new language.
During the 1960s members of the movement began experimenting with social themes, usually not involving them with their texts, being a personal connection instead. They began caring more about innovation in language
.The concreteness, first, it was a European movement of the visual arts in the 1930s, and music, in the forties. It was said "concrete" as opposed to the idea of "abstract".The formal launching of concrete poetry takes place in 1956 with the National Exhibition of Concrete Art at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, with the participation of poets and painters of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. However, already had been setting up since the beginning of the decade and even earlier, appearing as part of a movement or trend, often spontaneously, in Brazil and several European countries.In Italy, in 1943, coming of the long-futurism.However, the first texts that cater strictly to the precepts set to concrete poetry in its first manifesto (Pilot Plan for Concrete Poetry, published in São Paulo, 1958, and signed by Augusto de Campos, for his brother Haroldo de Campos and Decio Pignatari group meeting since 1952 under the name Noigandres) were a series of poems called "Poetamenos" and the first book of the Swiss-Bolivian Eugen Gomringer, Konstellationen (Constellations), both published in 1953. In the same year, was published in Sweden, the Swedish-Brazilian poet Öyvind Fahlström, is a manifesto called Manifest konkret poesie (Manifesto of concrete poetry), presenting many points of contact with the proposals of concrete poetry Paulo, emphasizing, however, importance of rhythm, which in any case, could lead us to think of poetry as a "cola drink" (Pignatari Decius, 1957) or the letter of the musical composition "What" (Arnaldo Antunes, 1986).
Concrete poetry takes Vladimir Mayakovsky
as a large exponent. The Russian poet used to say that "there's no revolutionary art without revolutionary form." In the "Pilot Plan", it is considered as their precursors, the order of reference in the manifest, Ezra Pound, Apollinaire, Eisenstein, Mallarmé, James Joyce, ee Cummings, futurists, Dadaists, Oswald de Andrade, João Cabral de Mello Neto, Webern and his followers, Mondrian, Max Bill and concrete art in general.There is no place in concrete poetry, according to its manifesto for "expression, subjectivity and hedonism." The poems must be a "poem-product" that will follow the formula of the original poetry of Mayakovsky, transforming the poem into the equation or "create exact problems and solve them in terms of language sensitive."
Avant-garde
Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
movement that came on the 1950s in Brazil and Switzerland, initially in music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, but later in poetry
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
and plastic arts. The concretism
Concretism
Concretism may refer to one of the following*Concrete art, a form of abstractionism*Concrete poetry*Reism, a philosophical movement*concretism , an opposite of abstraction, see Attitude_*Reification...
defended rationality
Rationality
In philosophy, rationality is the exercise of reason. It is the manner in which people derive conclusions when considering things deliberately. It also refers to the conformity of one's beliefs with one's reasons for belief, or with one's actions with one's reasons for action...
and rejected expressionism
Expressionism
Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas...
, perhaps, lyric abstraction and randomness
Randomness
Randomness has somewhat differing meanings as used in various fields. It also has common meanings which are connected to the notion of predictability of events....
. In their texts there is no intimism or worry about the subject, the obligation is to end up with the distinction between body and concept and create a new language.
During the 1960s members of the movement began experimenting with social themes, usually not involving them with their texts, being a personal connection instead. They began caring more about innovation in language
Language
Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...
.The concreteness, first, it was a European movement of the visual arts in the 1930s, and music, in the forties. It was said "concrete" as opposed to the idea of "abstract".The formal launching of concrete poetry takes place in 1956 with the National Exhibition of Concrete Art at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, with the participation of poets and painters of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. However, already had been setting up since the beginning of the decade and even earlier, appearing as part of a movement or trend, often spontaneously, in Brazil and several European countries.In Italy, in 1943, coming of the long-futurism.However, the first texts that cater strictly to the precepts set to concrete poetry in its first manifesto (Pilot Plan for Concrete Poetry, published in São Paulo, 1958, and signed by Augusto de Campos, for his brother Haroldo de Campos and Decio Pignatari group meeting since 1952 under the name Noigandres) were a series of poems called "Poetamenos" and the first book of the Swiss-Bolivian Eugen Gomringer, Konstellationen (Constellations), both published in 1953. In the same year, was published in Sweden, the Swedish-Brazilian poet Öyvind Fahlström, is a manifesto called Manifest konkret poesie (Manifesto of concrete poetry), presenting many points of contact with the proposals of concrete poetry Paulo, emphasizing, however, importance of rhythm, which in any case, could lead us to think of poetry as a "cola drink" (Pignatari Decius, 1957) or the letter of the musical composition "What" (Arnaldo Antunes, 1986).
Concrete poetry takes Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright, among the foremost representatives of early-20th century Russian Futurism.- Early life :...
as a large exponent. The Russian poet used to say that "there's no revolutionary art without revolutionary form." In the "Pilot Plan", it is considered as their precursors, the order of reference in the manifest, Ezra Pound, Apollinaire, Eisenstein, Mallarmé, James Joyce, ee Cummings, futurists, Dadaists, Oswald de Andrade, João Cabral de Mello Neto, Webern and his followers, Mondrian, Max Bill and concrete art in general.There is no place in concrete poetry, according to its manifesto for "expression, subjectivity and hedonism." The poems must be a "poem-product" that will follow the formula of the original poetry of Mayakovsky, transforming the poem into the equation or "create exact problems and solve them in terms of language sensitive."