Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil

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An exploration of the innovative, quintessentially Brazilian painter who merged modernism with the brilliant energy and culture of her homeland

Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973) was once a central figure at the genesis of brand new art in her native Brazil, and her influence reverberates all the way through 20th- and 21st-century art. Even though fairly little-known outdoor Latin The usa, her work deserves to be understood and admired by a wide recent audience. This publication establishes her rich background in European modernism, which included associations in Paris with artists Fernand Léger and Constantin Brancusi, dealer Ambroise Vollard, and poet Blaise Cendrars. Tarsila (as she is known affectionately in Brazil) synthesized avant-garde aesthetics with Brazilian subjects, creating stylized, exaggerated figures and landscapes inspired by her native country that were powerful emblems of the Brazilian modernist project referred to as Antropofagía.
 
Featuring a selection of Tarsila’s major paintings, this important volume conveys her vital role in the emerging brand new-art scene of Brazil, the community of artists and writers (including poets Oswald de Andrade and Mário de Andrade) with whom she explored and developed a Brazilian modernism, and how she was once therefore embraced as a national cultural icon. At the same time, an analysis of Tarsila’s legacy questions traditional perceptions of the 20th-century art world and asserts the significant role that Tarsila and others in Latin The usa had in shaping the global trajectory of modernism.

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