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This paper presents reflections on the work of Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx - one of the most influential in Brazil and worldwide - and its complex relationship with the field of painting. His garden designs, usually approached as free experimentation of colours and shapes, establish notable links with aesthetic principles of modern painting - such as the use of floating, isolated, sensual curvilinear shapes of Hans Arp and Juan Miró, and Van Gogh's vibrant, agitated colour planes - and were exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the world. This paper discusses these issues by approaching the complex relationship between art and landscape architecture, nature and artifice present in Burle Marx's work, particularly in the gardens designed in the period from the 1930s to the 1960s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
