Tag: Menotti Del Picchia
The Great and the Small, or when Del Picchia met Great Othello*
A few days ago I watched one of the most interesting documentaries recently released in Brazil, directed by Lucas H. Rossi dos Santos, Othelo, the...
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: in Brazil...
“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. Marasmus...
'The decolonial turn in Brazilian art': Considerations to stir up the debate
The reading of The decolonial turn in Brazilian art (Editora Mireveja), by Alessandra Simões Paiva –, brought up several questions that, although related to...
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 him,...
