Neide Dias de Sá (born November 2, 1940) is a Brazilian artist who spent a big portion of her life (about twenty years) teaching children art starting in the 1960s.
[5] These concepts of symbols and geometric shapes replacing words would later be reflected in her future work.
[5] Later, her works would shift from interactive exhibits to geometric sculptures supported by the force of magnetism.
[6] Due to times of strict U.S.-supported[9] dictatorship in Brazil, which censored and limited everyone living under this regime, artists such as Neide Sá and many others used their work to indirectly express what this strict censorship wouldn't allow them to.
She didn't official get her degree in art education until 1980 when she graduated from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.
[1][6] She spent twenty years teaching art classes to children starting in the 1960s.
[1] While attending the Pontifïcia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro she graduated and got her degree in art education in 1980.
This movement popped up in multiple locations at the same time: In Rio de Janeiro and Natal.
These mediums include pictures, different geometric shapes, cuts and bends in pages and other kinds of graphics.
These two series are related as they both include interactive pieces made up by metal disks supporting elements through the force of magnetism.
Not only drawings and paintings, Neide Sá also includes magazine cut outs with phrases such as "LIBERDADE", "HIPPIES TEM MAIS FLÔRES", "Oriente" and many others.
This work is described as "semiological poem" because it defined and categorized body movements are reflected over mirrored surfaces.
[7][8] 1980 Neide Sá: Livros-objeto, Galleria Il Brandale, Savona, Italy[5] 1985 Neide Sá: Livros-objeto, Galeria Macunaíma, Rio de Janeiro[5] 1993 Neide Sá: Livros-objeto, Galería Casa Jove, Barcelona[5] 1998 Neide Dias de Sá: Revelação dos rastros, Museu de Arte, Porto Alegre, Brazil[5] 2000 A ordem do caos, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro[5]