Modern Art Week
modern art week portuguese semana de arte moderna art festival são paulo brazil ran february february historically week marked start brazilian modernism though number individual brazilian artist modernist work week coalesced defined movement introduced brazilian society large week took place municipal theater são paulo included plastic art exhibition lecture concert reading poem breadth differed significantly armory show often compared featured visual art organized chiefly painter emiliano di cavalcanti poet mário de andrade attempt bring head longrunning conflict young modernist cultural establishment headed brazilian academy letter adhered strictly academicism event controversial best divisive worst one member academy graça aranha ostracized attending opened week conference titled aesthetic emotion modern art due radicalism time poem music artist vigorously booed pelted audience press art critic general strong condemnation famous episode editor writer art critic monteiro lobato group took part week contrary initial intention remain unified movement number separate group split original core member separated two division predominated anthropophagics cannibalists led oswald de andrade wanted make use influence european american artist freely create art regurgitation taken abroad thus term anthropophagy would eat influence digest throw new thing nationalist wanted foreign influence sought purely brazilian form art group led writer plínio salgado later became fascist political leader brazilian integralism arrested dictator getúlio vargas failed coup event leading são paulo prosperous relatively culturally unimportant city however week established são paulo seat new modernist movement far culturally conservative rio de janeiro anita malfatti emiliano di cavalcanti zina aita vicente rego monteiro ferrignac ignácio da costa ferreira yan de almeida prado john graz alberto martin ribeiro oswaldo goeldi georg przyrembel 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 heitor villalobos guiomar novais ernani braga frutuoso viana brazilian art armory show green ball brazil body soul exhibit guggenheim museum semana de arte moderna portuguese