Scope and Contents Internet: "Rubens Gerchman (10 janvier 1942, Rio de Janeiro - 29 janvier 2008, Sao Paulo) est un peintre et sculpteur bresilien influence par l'art concret et neoconcret. Rubens Gerchman (born January 10, 1942, Rio de Janeiro January 29, 2008) was a Brazilian painter and sculptor. He was heavily influenced by concrete and neoconcrete art. Many of Gerchmans works are paintings based on populist themes and his political beliefs, which followed those of neoconcrete artists. His sculptures with letters, stem from concrete poetry. Gerchman studied at the Rio de Janeiro School of Fine Arts. In the 1960s, his work focused on mass culture. He used faces clipped from news photos, but unlike Andy Warhol, who used infamous celebrity, he used images of anonymous individuals. These faces would be reproduced as multiple painted images in a comic-strip style. In the late 1960s, Gerchman devoted his interest to urban isolation and alienation. He produced boxes and containers destined to be opened...