Tarsila do Amaral
1 September 1886 – 17 January 1973
Tarsila do Amaral was a Brazilian painter and a central figure in the development of modern art in Brazil. Her painting 'Abaporu' inspired the Antropofagia movement, which sought to 'cannibalize' European influences to create a distinctly Brazilian modernism. She is regarded as one of the most important Latin American artists of the twentieth century.
Lived at the same time
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Life events
Tarsila do Amaral was born into a wealthy coffee-planting family in Capivari, São Paulo state.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe trained in São Paulo and then in Paris, including at the Académie Julian.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe became part of a group of five artists and writers championing Brazilian modernism.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe created 'A Negra', an important early work of her modernist style.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe married the modernist writer Oswald de Andrade, a key collaborator in the Antropofagia movement.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe completed 'Abaporu', which inspired the Antropofagia (Cannibalist) movement of Brazilian modernism.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAfter a trip to the Soviet Union she painted socially engaged works such as 'Operários' and 'Segunda Classe'.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTarsila do Amaral died in São Paulo, Brazil.
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