Tarsila do Amaral.
Grand Palais Rmn/Luxembourg Museum| N° d'inventaire | 31260 |
| Format | 24.5 x 29 |
| Détails | 208 p., 160 ill., bound |
| Publication | Paris, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782711880218 |
exhibition catalog. Exhibition at the Luxembourg Museum from October 9, 2024 to February 2, 2025
“I feel more and more Brazilian. I want to be the painter of my country.”
(Tarsila do Amaral, 1923)
A central figure in Brazilian art and the early 20th-century artistic and cultural revival known as "modernismo," Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973) is undoubtedly one of the most popular artists in Brazil.
Tarsila moved to Paris in 1920 and forged his style alongside Fernand Léger, Albert Gleizes, and André Lhote. At the crossroads of two cultures and two continents, his work explores social and racial issues, delivering an indigenous imagination as it is internalized, dreamed of, even idealized, and landscapes whose telluric and archaic evocations are telescoped by the modern face of South American metropolises undergoing profound and rapid transformation.
His painting invites us to rethink the divisions between traditions and avant-gardes, centers and peripheries, high and low cultures, while questioning extremely topical notions such as indigenism, cultural heritage and colonialism. All these references are observed and translated into an original, accessible and modern pictorial vocabulary.
In addition to his production from the 1920s linked to the "modernist", "Pau Brasil" and "anthropophagic" movements, this catalogue shows his work from the 1930s to the 1960s and allows us to explore the political, militant and spiritual dimension of the artist, perfectly anchored in the Brazilian culture of his time and always receptive and permeable to current instances of Western arts.
Exhibition at the Luxembourg Museum from October 9, 2024 to February 2, 2025
exhibition catalog. Exhibition at the Luxembourg Museum from October 9, 2024 to February 2, 2025
“I feel more and more Brazilian. I want to be the painter of my country.”
(Tarsila do Amaral, 1923)
A central figure in Brazilian art and the early 20th-century artistic and cultural revival known as "modernismo," Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973) is undoubtedly one of the most popular artists in Brazil.
Tarsila moved to Paris in 1920 and forged his style alongside Fernand Léger, Albert Gleizes, and André Lhote. At the crossroads of two cultures and two continents, his work explores social and racial issues, delivering an indigenous imagination as it is internalized, dreamed of, even idealized, and landscapes whose telluric and archaic evocations are telescoped by the modern face of South American metropolises undergoing profound and rapid transformation.
His painting invites us to rethink the divisions between traditions and avant-gardes, centers and peripheries, high and low cultures, while questioning extremely topical notions such as indigenism, cultural heritage and colonialism. All these references are observed and translated into an original, accessible and modern pictorial vocabulary.
In addition to his production from the 1920s linked to the "modernist", "Pau Brasil" and "anthropophagic" movements, this catalogue shows his work from the 1930s to the 1960s and allows us to explore the political, militant and spiritual dimension of the artist, perfectly anchored in the Brazilian culture of his time and always receptive and permeable to current instances of Western arts.
Exhibition at the Luxembourg Museum from October 9, 2024 to February 2, 2025