Tropicália

トロピカリア / mid-1960s– / Style / Brazilian Counterculture

Mixes blazing color, music, sand, plants, makeshift space and participation — critiquing dictatorship-era repression and the exported image of a 'tropical paradise.'

Blazing hybridity / Participatory space / Music and costume / The tropical image inverted

Tropicália — オイチシカのペネトラーヴェル（イニョチン）（CC BY 2.0） — オイチシカのペネトラーヴェル（イニョチン）（CC BY 2.0）／オイチシカ『マジック・スクエア』（CC BY-SA 2.0）

Tropicália — オイチシカ『マジック・スクエア』（CC BY-SA 2.0） — オイチシカのペネトラーヴェル（イニョチン）（CC BY 2.0）／オイチシカ『マジック・スクエア』（CC BY-SA 2.0）

Dictionary entry

Best used for: Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type: Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition: Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
Material: Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
Caution: Not colorful tropical kitsch. Verify Brazil's military regime, the favelas, the political mixing of music and art.
Further study: Hélio Oiticica / Lygia Pape / Caetano Veloso / Gilberto Gil

Related entries

Neo-Concrete Art (ネオ・コンクリート・アート)
Psychedelic (サイケデリック)

Source: MoMA — Tropicália

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