Artist field note

Tarsila Do Amaral

Brazilian modernism learns to digest Europe.

Appears inLatin America
A Lua by Tarsila Do Amaral
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A Lua

1928

A cactus-like form and moon turn landscape into an invented tropical dream rather than documentary scenery.

The five in one idea

Tarsila made Brazilian modernism powerful by refusing to be merely European modernism in Brazilian clothes.