Modern Art Week
The Modern Art Week (
The Week took place at the
The group that took part in the Week, contrary to their initial intentions, did not remain a unified movement. A number of separate groups split off, and the original core members had separated by 1929. Two divisions predominated: the Anthropophagics (cannibalists), led by Oswald de Andrade, wanted to make use of the influence of European and American artists but freely create their own art out of the regurgitations of what they had taken from abroad (thus the term anthropophagy: they would "eat" all influences, digest it, and throw out new things). The Nationalists wanted no foreign influences, and sought a "purely Brazilian" form of art. This group was led by writer Plínio Salgado, who later became a fascist political leader (Brazilian Integralism) and was arrested by dictator Getúlio Vargas after a failed coup.
Before the events leading up to 1922, São Paulo was a prosperous but relatively culturally unimportant city. However, the Week established São Paulo as the seat of the new modernist movement, against the far more culturally conservative Rio de Janeiro.
Participants
Painters
- Anita Malfatti
- Emiliano Di Cavalcanti
- Zina Aita
- Vicente do Rego Monteiro
- Ferrignac (Ignácio da Costa Ferreira)
- Yan de Almeida Prado
- John Graz
- Alberto Martins Ribeiro
- Oswaldo Goeldi
Architects
Writers
- Mário de Andrade
- Oswald de Andrade
- Menotti del Picchia
- Sérgio Milliet
- Plínio Salgado
- Ronald de Carvalho
- Agenor Fernandes Barbosa
- Álvaro Moreira
- Renato de Almeida
- Ribeiro Couto
- Guilherme de Almeida
- Graça Aranha
Composers
- Heitor Villa-Lobos
- Guiomar Novais
- Ernani Braga
- Frutuoso Viana
See also
References
- ^ JSTOR 1504129.
External links
- Brazil Body and Soul, exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum
- Semana de Arte Moderna (in Portuguese)