Discover or MASP (Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand)

O MASP is the most important museum in Latin America and contains a collection of more than 11,000 national and international peças - the institution houses works-firsts from Tarsila do Amaral to Van Gogh.

The private museum and semi-lucrative purposes - considered the first modern museum in the country - was founded by the businessman Assis Chateaubriand in 1947. Ele is located since 1968 on Avenida Paulista, in São Paulo.

MASP Collection

Counting with an enormous collection, with more than 11,000 works, many of the peças foram garimpadas by own business owner and patron of the Assis Chateaubriand project (1892-1968).

O MASP possui a largest collection of European works of art for Europe and the United States.

The collection includes material from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. In terms of data, there are materials that go from ancient times to the XXI century.

Mais do que pictures, or MASP has pieces linked to sculpture, fashion and photography for além videos and pieces of archeology.

O MASP é collection teased IPHAN (National Historical and Artistic Heritage) and receives documents of physical and legal persons.

Or museum has not been digitization process of works and, no time, there has been 2,000 works from the collection are available online.

Importance of MASP

Born of a genuine desire to disclose, protect and disseminate works of art among Brazilians, or MASP segue tied the days of the leaf fulfilling his missão.

A major institution of national art contemplating artists such as Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral, Candido Portinari and Di Cavalcanti.

O MAPS also has an international collection that has paintings by great names such as Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Rafael, Cézanne, Modigliani, Picasso and Rembrandt.

MASP architecture

The work of the institution was assisted by the Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) who produced both the project and the exhibition.

Considered or first modern museum of the countryIts construction was based on the non-use of concrete suspended apparent and very glass.

Or project contou with a 74 meter free vão idealized as a species of public praça to gather populaçãor. Até hoje or space serve as a meeting point for protests, political demonstrations, fairs, shows and presentations.

Lembrando um suspense container (erected a few feet from the ground), a construction supported by four huge pilasters is in a very central region and valued by the city, in Bela Vista.

The transparent cavaletes

Lina Bo Bardi also idealized the use of glass boxes to support works of art not inside the museum.

The idea of ​​two transparent cavaletes is related to some aesthetic objectives. Os cavaletes tinham or intuito de:

• give the sensation that the fabrics are floating;
• allow or public visse or verse of expository works;
• be in accordance with the idea of ​​permeability, consistent with the architecture itself escolhida for o MASP.

During the management of Júlio Neves, in 1996, the exhibition project was replaced by conventional walls. Just in 2015 the cavaletes will return to the museum.

Story

Before establishing its current headquarters, on Avenida Paulista, or museum, it was installed in 1947 at Rua 7 de April, did not precede two Associated Diários, occupying an area of ​​one thousand square meters divided into four walk.

Someone on November 7, 1968 is the migrant institution for or right where it is at least two days away, located at Avenida Paulista number 1578, in the Bela Vista region.

At the invitation of his own employer and patron, Assis Chateaubriand, or critic and Italian dealer Pietro Maria Bardi (1900-1999) was the first to direct or MASP in 1968.

Either land where it has been located since 1968 or MASP was a meeting point for the São Paulo elite (or Trianon belvedere), that in 1951 was demolished giving rise to a great pavilion where the first São Paulo International Biennial was held. Paul.

Construction of MASP

The building has been built for 10 years To be internally concluded and was inaugurated on the 7th of November 1968 in the presence of Prince Philip and Rainha Elizabeth II of England. A rainha fez or inauguration speech of the institution.

Originally the outer columns were not painted vermelho. Elas eram da cor cinza (exposed or concrete) até 1989 more, due to successive infiltrations, or building I need to go through works and the architect Lina Bo Bardi suggested that the structure be painted in vermelho. According to her, that was a desire for her from the beginning of the project's conception.

Or museum, which had about ten thousand square meters, in 2003 became protected by IPHAN (National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute).

Information essenciais

Quem fez or Masp?	The current MASP building was designed by the Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi
When was it inaugurated or Masp?	O MASP was founded in 1947 and was transferred to its current location on Avenida Paulista in 1968, having been inaugurated on November 7
What is the end of the Masp?	Disseminate and promote national and international culture for Brazilians
How much cost or quantity and what hours of operation?	Or regular income, for adults, costs R $ 40. Or the museum has free entrance to the terças. Or museum is dated to the second, it opens to the third between 10am and 8pm and between the fourth and Sunday between 10am and 6pm.

Conheça also

• Christ the Redeemer Monument
• Arame Opera Monument (Curitiba)
• Escadaria Selarón Monument (Rio de Janeiro)

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).