Untitled, from the series Punctum

1966

Untitled, from the series Punctum, 1966. Almir Mavignier (Brazilian, b. 1925). Color screenprint; sheet: 61.9 x 61.8 cm (24 3/8 x 24 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Harold T. Clark Educational Extension Fund 1968.167 © Almir Mavignier Almir Mavignier aligned himself with kinetic art, a movement that spread across Latin America in the decades after World War II. Rather than focusing on representation or abstraction, these artists used bright colors and eye-bending forms to suggest movement and engage the viewer through visual perception. In this print, Mavignier used patterns of black and colored squares to create a sense of three-dimensional space. Almir Mavignier studied in Germany and was influenced by theories of color developed at the Bauhaus, an important art school there.