{"id":620,"date":"2012-08-06T13:35:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T18:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/fivecenturiesofchange\/?page_id=620"},"modified":"2021-11-03T23:14:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T03:14:14","slug":"modern-art-week-and-the-rise-of-brazilian-modernism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/chapters\/chapter-5\/modern-art-week-and-the-rise-of-brazilian-modernism\/","title":{"rendered":"5.3 Modern Art Week and the Rise of Brazilian Modernism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New Currents of Modernism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photo below shows some of the artists and sponsors of Modern Art Week in 1922. Writer and critic M\u00e1rio de Andrade, one of the founders of the modernist movement, is the third man from the left, and Oswald de Andrade, another member of the movement (but no relation), sits on the floor in front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Grupo da Semana de 22,” from the photo album of Tarsila do Amaral, c. 1922. From Caixa Modernista, Edusp \/ Editoria UFMG \/ Imprensa Oficial, S\u00e3o Paulo, 2003.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The “Grupo dos Cinco” [Group of Five] was the name for a collection of five modernists who were influential in the early founding of the movement and sought to promote a uniquely Brazilian culture that emphasized indigenous and non-European elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though its members collaborated in forming the movement and organizing Modern Art Week, the group did not remain a unified source of modernist output throughout the 1920s. Groups split off due to divergent interests or disagreements over which tradition should inform the movement, while personal disputes\u2014like a feud between Mario de Andrade and Oswald de Andrade after the latter called the former effeminate in writing\u2014further hurt the unity of the Grupo dos Cinco<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Grupo dos Cinco [Tarsila do Amaral, M\u00e1rio de Andrade, Anita Malfatti, Oswald de Andrade, e Menotti del Picchia]” (1922). This painting by Anita Malfatti shows five of the most important modernist painters together in a room, where they are lounging and clearly disregarding traditional standards of propriety. From Caixa Modernista, Edusp \/ Editoria UFMG \/ Imprensa Oficial, S\u00e3o Paulo, 2003.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The following images were either displayed at Modern Art Week in S\u00e3o Paulo in 1922, or were created in the years following this catalytic event for modern art in Brazil. Examine the images and notice the kinds of people, lifestyles, and emotions they evoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n