Artist field note

Tarsila Do Amaral

Brazilian modernism learns to digest Europe.

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Antropofagia by Tarsila Do Amaral
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Antropofagia

1929

Two earlier pictorial worlds are fused into a manifesto image: cultural cannibalism becomes a visual method.

The five in one idea

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