Arthur Amora briefly passed through the Occupational Therapy Section at the end of the 1940s and there isn’t much more information about him. He arrived at the studio wanting to paint, but claiming he didn’t know how to draw, so it was suggested that he choose a theme that interested him. He found a domino box and copied all the pieces. After that, he started to simplify their shapes, abandoning the dots, covering the white and black stripes, breaking apart the angles, finding new curves, and creating structures with a strong optical contrast.

His compositions were produced between 1949 and 1951.

Around the same time, groups of painters who called themselves ‘concretes’, influenced by Swiss ‘concrete’ painting – geometric in nature –, were having discussions along the Rio de Janeiro – São Paulo axis about who would be the protagonists of that movement in Brazil. Arthur Amora’s works revealed a consistent geometry, free from foreign influences.

Almir Mavignier