Tag: mario de andrade
BACON AND MÁRIO DE ANDRADE AT MASP: A WEIRD ENCOUNTER | Part two
PART TWO Because of the Mário de Andrade exhibition. Two Lives was conceived based on the works collected by the critic, when I went down to the MASP basement to visit it, I was eager to see some of them again...
BACON AND MÁRIO DE ANDRADE AT MASP: A WEIRD ENCOUNTER
PART ONE A few days ago I visited two exhibitions at MASP: “Francis Bacon: the beauty of meat”, curated by Laura Consedey, and “Mário de Andrade. Two lives”, curated by Regina Teixeira de Barros. While...
From Jeca Tatu to Nhô Nito
With the exception of Manoel Querino (1851-1923), intellectuals who wrote about the visual arts during the First Republic started from the following assumption: a branch of European art was developing in Brazil. Some would try to propose or detect...
“I’m sorry, Anita dear”
In September 1928, back in São Paulo after five years in Paris, Anita Malfatti came across the city's cultural stagnation. Deceitful doldrums, so to speak, similar to that which also seemed to prevail there in...
Notes on the Group of Five: a hint of melancholy in the centenary of the Week
Group of Five is a drawing that Anita Malfatti produced in the second half of 1922, a few months after the Modern Art Week. In it, the artist, in addition to portraying herself lying on...
carving in time
New film by Lauro Escorel profiles masters of Brazilian photography and dives into the making of the image
Female sexualization in Brazilian plastic arts
1. WOMAN'S SEEM Anita Malfatti became known from a canvas painted in 1916 and exhibited in Paris, called A Boba. Anita was born in 1889, the year of the proclamation of the Republic, just a year later...
