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Tarsila Do Amaral

Brazilian modernism learns to digest Europe.

Appears inLatin America
Operários by Tarsila Do Amaral — Example from the series
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Operários

1933

A wall of workers’ faces replaces dream landscape with industrial society. Modern Brazil appears as labour, migration and difference.

The five in one idea

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

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