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ID: 500356599
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Record Type: Person
Torres, Caciporé (Brazilian painter, born 1935)

Note: Brazilian sculptor, designer and teacher. He attended studios of sculpture in Europe and studied history of art at the Sorbonne. In the 1950s, he dedicated himself to abstractionism, producing huge geometric works from metallic pieces of industrial shapes. Several of his sculptures were made to enter public spaces of several cities worldwide. In the 1970s, he was elected president of the International Association of Art, at UNESCO.

Names:
Torres, Caciporé (preferred,V,LC)
Caciporé Torres (V)
Torres, Caciporé de Sá Coutinho (V)
Caciporé (V,LC)

Nationalities:
Brazilian (preferred)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter
draftsman
teacher

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Araçatuba (São Paulo, Brazil) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
student of ....  Calder, Alexander  
..................  (American sculptor, painter, and designer, 1898-1976) [500007824]
student of ....  Marini, Marino  
..................  (Italian sculptor, painter, and printmaker, 1901-1980) [500031294]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Torres, Caciporé (I)

Additional Notes:
Portuguese ..... Escultor, desenhista e professor brasileiro. Frequentou ateliês de escultura na Europa e estudou história da arte na Sorbonne. Nos anos 1950, dedicou-se ao abstracionismo, produzindo formas maciças geométricas a partir de peças metálicas de aparência industrial. Muitas de suas esculturas foram feitas para integrar espações público em diversas cidades do mundo. Nos anos 1970, foi eleito presidente da International Association of Art, da Unesco. 

Biographies:
(Brazilian painter, born 1935) ..... [PESP Preferred]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Caciporé ........ [VP]
...................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) n 2014206837; accessed 17 November 2014
Caciporé Torres ........ [PESP, VP]
................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Torres, Caciporé ........ [PESP Preferred, VP Preferred]
..................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) n 2014206837; accessed 17 November 2014
..................................  PESP database (2000-)
Torres, Caciporé de Sá Coutinho ........ [PESP, VP]
............................................................  PESP database (2000-)

Subject: ........ [PESP, VP]
....................  Dezenovevinte (1986)
....................  Leite and Silva, Dicionário Crítico da Pintura no Brasil (1988)
....................  Pontual, Artes plásticas Brasil (1969)
 
Note:
English .......... [PESP]
.......... PESP database (2000-) researcher: Luciana Negrini, 2015
Portuguese .......... [PESP]
.......... PESP database (2000-) researcher: Luciana Negrini, 2015
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