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Amílcar Augusto Pereira de Castro (born: Paraisópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil 6 June 1920, died: Belo Horizonte, Brazil 21 November 2002) was a Brazilian artist, sculptor and graphic designer. Starting his career as a graphic designer, he revolutioned the design of Brazilian newspapers in the 1950s, but from the 1960s he focused on sculpture as the leading figure of the Brazilian neo-constructivist movement. Amilcar de castro became an internationally renowned and is famous for large, bold simple steel forms nearly always characterised by a design based on "one cut, one fold."