1. Mira Schendel was a 20th-century Brazilian contemporary artist.
24 Facts About Mira Schendel
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Mira Schendel was known for her drawings on rice paper and was active as a painter, poet, and sculptor.
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Mira Schendel's work drew upon the art of language and poetry, and what appears to have driven her was the ability to reinvent it.
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Mira Schendel was born Myrrha Dagmar Dub in 1919 in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Mira Schendel's father, Karl Leo Dub, was a fabric merchant, and her mother, Ada Saveria Buttner, was a milliner.
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Mira Schendel's parents divorced in September 1922, and her mother married Count Tommaso Gnoli in 1937.
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In Sao Paulo, an immigrant city that was industrial and undergoing rapid growth, Mira Schendel found a circle of emigre intellectuals from different disciplines with whom she could discuss ideas about aesthetics and philosophy; this included the Czech-born philosopher Vilem Flusser, the physicist Mario Schenberg and the psychoanalyst Theon Spanudis among others.
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Mira Schendel used paint with talc and brick dust, and made many drawings on rice paper.
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The graphic output in Mira Schendel's paintings explore the relations between language and art, and the inquiry into that relationship reveals itself in the totality of her work.
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Between 1964 and 1966, Mira Schendel produced almost two thousand drawings in oil paintings on fine rice paper, as well as the Monotypes series.
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The central subject Mira Schendel explored in these notebooks was time, the dimension of language.
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In Monotypes, Mira Schendel dealt with the desire to dismantle the teleology of language.
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Mira Schendel worked rapidly and in little over a year she had made the majority of approximately 2,000 drawings.
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In works such as Droguinhas, Trenzinhos, and Still Waves of Probability, despite the overall repetition and accumulation, Mira Schendel explores language as action, faltering to absolute resistance.
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Mira Schendel's Perfurados creates constellations, clusters, and spiderwebs of light, walls, or undersurfaces shining through their pinpricked surfaces.
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In 1954, she met Knut Mira Schendel, a German emigre and owner of an important bookshop, Canuto, which was a hub for Sao Paulo's intellectuals.
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Mira Schendel died at the age of 69 in 1988 from lung cancer, in Sao Paulo.
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Mira Schendel was in communication with other artists in Brazil, but she was not heavily influenced by any of them.
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Mira Schendel had no ties to any specific school or movement, and she was constantly evolving her work and techniques throughout her life.
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When Mira Schendel arrived in Brazil she had an experimental and reflective attitude towards things.
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Mira Schendel explored multiple directions in her work which allowed her to enjoy the freedom of fluid form of thought and play with the limits of form and work itself.
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Mira Schendel's work drew upon the art of language and poetry, and what appears to have driven her was the ability to reinvent it.
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Mira Schendel neither attempted to order reality or to impose meaning on it in her art.
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Mira Schendel's material attained intensity through gentle interventions and her works' meaning depends on preserving this tension.