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Main Arts event in Brazil
Talking about the artists of Modern Art means
talking about the greatest event that marked the
history of Brazilian art. This event, known as the
week de Modern Art or week twenty two, occurred
place at the Municipal Theater of São Paulo,
between February 13th and 18th, 1922.
History of Modern Art
In 1922 Brazil celebrated its first centenary
of independence. Since the period that preceded the
Week of 1922, known before Modernism, there was
a reaction on the part of the artistic class to show a
Brazil seen under the real plan, far from the
idealism preached by the romantic time. The Brazil
of the marginalized, ranging from the northeastern
hinterland to the Rio suburbs.
In this euphoric atmosphere, imbued with
the purpose of making changes, especially
influenced by avant-garde movements, artists
expressed their ideological positions through their
creations, whether in painting, music, sculpture,
literature, among other forms of art. The intention
was to create a way to break with the parameters
that prevailed in the arts in general.
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The euphoric atmosphere, imbued
with the purpose of making changes,
especially influenced by the avant-
garde movements, is that the artists
expressed their ideological positions
through their creations, whether in
painting, music, sculpture, literature,
among other forms of art. The aim was
to create a way to break with the
parameters that prevailed in the arts in
general.
Modern Art is the set of artistic
expressions that emerged in Europe at
the end of the 19th century and lasted
until the middle of the 20th century.
It especially covers architecture,
sculpture, literature and painting.
In Brazil, this artistic trend was
consolidated with the Week of
Modern Art that took place in 1922 at
the Municipal Theater in the city of
São Paulo.
It is considered that modern art had its
decline with the end of World War II,
giving way to other artistic currents of
contemporary or postmodern art.
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The main exponents of modern art in the
country were:
• Anita Malfatti: expressionist painter,
draftsman, teacher and part of the group
of five. One of his best known works is
“A boba”.
• Mário de Andrade: poet, prose writer,
musician and historian. One of the main
names in Modernism in Brazil.
• Oswald de Andrade: writer and
dramatist, he also followed the Modernist
aesthetic in his works. His poets were
very close to everyday language, being
totally contrary to Parnassianism.
• Tarsila do Amaral: painting and
sculpture. Artist along with Oswald, he
was the head of the Antropofagia
movement. His best known work is
“Abaporu”;
• Menotti Del Picchia: journalist,
politician and painter. He was a critical
modernist, one of the strands of
Modernism.
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Consequences of Modern Art in Brazil
The Week of Modern Art
represented a true renewal of language, in
the search for experimentation, in the
creative freedom to break with the past and
even bodily, as art then moved from the
avant-garde to modernism. The world was
experiencing great scientific, artistic,
philosophical and religious transformations,
with Europe as the crib for these
transformations.
The First World War brought social
and economic changes in the world,
destroying an entire European romanticism
in all human relations.
Europe enters an artistic boil as a
response to all the transformations it
undergoes, and Brazil, an importer of
European culture, is not far behind. The
Week of Modern Art in 1922 was a
milestone that will remain in our history as
the event that took Brazil from a parochial
past to a future to be traversed..
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Its main features are:
• - Rejection of academicism
• Informality
•Freedom of expression
• Relative score
• Approximation of popular and colloquial
language
• Deformed figures and illogical scenes
• Abandonment of realistic representation of
shapes
• Arbitrary use of colors
• Urbanism
• Humor, irreverence
• Strangeness
Main Features of Modern Art
Modern art's main characteristic is the break
with current standards. This aspect is
mainly due to its historical moment. The canvas Operários (1933), by Tarsila do
Amaral is an example of Brazilian modernist
It happened in a period of great work
technological achievements (such as the
invention of photography and cinema), in
addition to the Industrial Revolution, World
War I and later World War II.
Thus, art is also transformed and begins to
play an increasingly challenging role,
expressing in some way the uncertainties
and dilemmas of contemporaneity.
This artistic expression radically
transformed the field of arts by breaking
with formalisms, reaching even the
grammatical structures in the literary field
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Leading artists of modern art.

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2. "SAMBA" (1925) BY EMILIANO DI 4. "ABAPORU" (1928) BY TARSILA DO
CAVALCANTI AMARAL

Main works of Brazilian Modern Art
1. “A NEGRA” (1923) BY TARSILA DO
AMARAL
Featuring black characters and strong
features, the play “Samba” is considered by
many scholars to be Emiliano di Cavalcanti's
most important work and the one that best
represents national identity through black
culture.
The painting “Abaporu” is, without a doubt,
one of the most emblematic pieces of the
anthropophagic movement and Brazilian
modern art. In addition, it is also one of the
most valuable and known Brazilian works
abroad.

“A Negra” was part of Tarsila do Amaral’s

first solo e exhibition. For many critics his
work was considered exotic original, cerebral
and also naive.

3. "BANANAL" (1927), BY LASAR

SEGALL

The painting “Bananal’ by Lasar Segall,

draws attention to a worker standing in the
Middle of a banana plantation, emphasizing
the human elemento in Brazilian agriculture
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