Tudo on a Modern Art Week
A Modern Art Week was a framework for the cultural independence of our country and also served as the initial point of modernism.
The avant-garde artists - influenced by recent European aesthetic experiments - tried to show Brazil as it really was: a mixture of cultures and styles.
Find out more about the event that takes place in the São Paulo Municipal Theater and brings together writers, visual artists and musicians.
About Modern Art Week
A Modern Art Week takes place in São Paulo, not Theatro Municipal.
Despite this week, no real events will take place on February 13, 15 and 17, 1922.
Note that the escort of the year was not by chance: 100 years before or Brazil is going through a process of independence. A escolha feita modernist hairs to give life to the event 100 years since this occasion was marked, therefore, highly symbolic.
O event, financed by the elite coffee house of the State of São Paulo, brings together the Brazilian artistic intellectuality that seeks to think about new ways of producing culture.
During the three days there were exhibitions, beautiful readings, lectures and music recitations. The event encompasses various artistic modalities: painting, sculpture, music and literature.
Participants
The main artists who participate give the Modern Art Week foram:
- Graça Aranha (literature)
- Oswald de Andrade (literature)
- Mário de Andrade (literature)
- Anita Malfatti (painting)
- Di Cavalcanti (painting)
- Villa-Lobos (music)
- Menotti del Picchia (literature)
- Victor Brecheret (sculpture)
Primeira noite (February 13, 1922)
Graça Aranha (author of the famous romance Canaã) I opened the Modern Art Week (on the evening of the 13th) reading a chamado text A aesthetic emotion in modern art.
Já considered a great name of national culture - and also a more consolidated artist - it is not the weight of the group.
Concorrida, a first night I contacted you with presentations and exhibitions. Um two highlights do found foi or quadro Russian student, painted by Anita Malfatti.
Second night (February 15, 1922)
Despite the aesthetic divergences between the artists, a common element meeting or group of modernists: it was a voracious um against Parnassianism. The Parnassians, from the perspective of two modernists, produced hermetic poetry, metrified and, in the last instance, empty.
Tired of assisting in the production in Brazil of an ancient and dull art, the artists place a hand in the mass and create a series of experiences to procure for a nova art form.
Convém lembrar that the second night of the Modern Art Week stands out as a poem reading Os sapos, by Manuel Bandeira. Doente, or poet can not appear in the event, despite being sent to his contribution. A criação promotes a clear satire on the Parnassian movement It was declared by Ronald de Carvalho:
O sapo-tanoeiro,
Parnassian watered down,
Say: - "Meu cancioneiro
É bem martelado.Sell like cousin
Em eat you hiatuses!
What art! I never rhyme
Thermos cognates.
Once taken from the poem, it is perceived or arc of artistic contempt that Manuel Bandeira - of the modernists in general - distills in relation to his artistic ancestors.
He read two controversial verses mobilizou paixões e Ronald de Carvalho ended up being vandalized.
Terceira noite (February 17, 1922)
On the third and last night of the Modern Art Week a star or composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, who traces an original piece, mixing a series of instruments.
He had already been introduced to previous nights, but he did not want to be confined to his work, a more special one.
Or a musician appeared on the stage wearing a jacket and chinelos. Or public, feeling outraged by unusual clothing, vaiou or composer (despite mais late I came to tona that you chinelos was the fault of um calo e não tinham qualquer intention provocative).
Targets two artists
Or modernists who participate in the Modern Art Week intended to create a national identity throwing at the Brazilian culture of the past tempo.
They want to influence contemporary artists to come forward (establishing or new) and to experiment with innovative ways of producing themselves artistically.
Ideia was renew Brazilian aesthetics and think about avant-garde art.
O event served especially for exchange experiences with other breeders and to approximate that new generation that I wanted to produce or new in different cultural areas.
Event poster
This event will have repercussions for three nights and reach a much larger public than those who have the privilege of being not at the Municipal Theater.
Three magazines that were launched during the Modern Art Week and later published, were: Klaxon (São Paulo, 1922), A Revista (Belo Horizonte, 1925) and Estética (Rio de Janeiro, 1924).
Idealists and incansáveis, the modernists will also redirect four manifestoes-chave that will help us to understand each other dessa geração. Foram eles:
- Manifesto Manifesto
- Pau-Brazil Manifesto
- Green Manifesto-amarelo
- Anta Manifesto
Historical context not country
Years before, the Modern Art Week gave the industrial bourgeoisie ganhava força no country, especially the State of São Paulo. As development or country it was attracting more and more European immigrants (especially Italians), or which provided a rich fusion of our mixed culture.
The foram artists met years before the event, influenced by European avant-garde. In common they partilhavam or desire to move and to annsia for helping to found a new culture.
Oswald de Andrade himself - two great names of movement - returns to Europe as contaminated by the cubist and futurist arts. Confirm that you return to your native land:
We are fifty years behind in culture, down still in full Parnassianism.
Events that will culminate in the Modern Art Week
Contrary to what is customary to create, the Modern Art Week was not an isolated event, but rather a series of artistic movements that took place in previous years.
Convém lembrar de pelo less three revolutionary precursor events that will culminate in the Week of 22:
- Exposição de Lasar Segall (1913)
- Exhibition of Anita Malfatti (1917)
- Model of the Monument to the Bandeiras by Victor Brecheret (1920)
Trust everything about or Modernism not Brazil.
Conheça also
- Important artists of Modern Art Week
- Modern Art: movements and artists in Brazil and in the world
- Anita Malfatti: works and biography
Formed in Literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2010), Master of Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2013) and doutora in Studies of Culture of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and of the Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon (2018).
