(23 Jan 2025)
UK BRAZILIAN ART
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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1. Various of ‘Three Orishas’, 1966, Djanira da Motta e Silva, portraying religious deities of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé
2. Various of ‘Banana Grove’, 1961, Djanira da Motta e Silva
3. Various of ‘Kite Flying’, 1950, Djanira da Motta e Silva
4. Wide of gallery
5. Mid of man sitting in gallery
6. Various of Rebecca Bray, co-curator of the Brasil! Brasil! exhibition
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Rebecca Bray, co-curator:
"So this exhibition explores a period of real flourishing of the arts in Brazil, running from roughly the 1910s to the 1970s. It was a period when artists, writers, thinkers were all wanting to really shape the direction of their young, ambitious country. And so in this exhibition, we’ve taken ten of the artists who were part of this movement that’s now known as Brazilian modernism. And we’ve dedicated a space to each of these artists so that our visitors can come and really explore in depth each artist’s individual approach towards modernism."
8. Mid of two paintings by Anita Malfatti, ‘Portrait of Oswald’ and ‘Chinese Woman’
9. Various close ups of ‘Chinese Woman’, 1921-22, Anita Malfatti
10. Tilt up of ‘Portrait of Oswald’, 1925, Anita Malfatti, depicting Oswald de Andrade, a founder of Brazilian Modernism
11. Various of ‘Japanese Man’, 1915/16, Anita Malfatti
12. Mid of two paintings
13. Various of ‘Coffee Agricultural Worker’, 1934, Candido Portinari
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Rebecca Bray, co-curator:
"So Brazil at the beginning of the 20th century – and still to this day – was an extremely diverse country, both in cultures, landscapes, people. And that’s really strongly reflected in a lot of the art in this exhibition. Both the artists themselves are a very diverse group. We have people who trained in Europe, some came from Europe and emigrated to Brazil and others, we have artists of Afro-Brazilian descent and Indigenous descent. And so the artists themselves reflect the diversity of Brazil. But they also were reflecting that diversity in their art. For a lot of these artists, being able to capture what made Brazil unique was the key thing that drove them."
15. Wide of gallery
16. Mid of (left) ‘Market II’, 1925, and (right) ‘Lake’, 1928, both Tarsila do Amaral
17. Various of ‘Settlement I’, 1952, Tarsila do Amaral
18. Various of ‘Favela Hill’, 1924, Tarsila do Amaral
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Rebecca Bray, co-curator:
"Brazilian artists were definitely taking influence from art that came both from Brazil and from around the world. And one thing that I think was really unique in that is this movement, the anthropophagic movement that developed, spearheaded by Tarsila, and the manifesto of that movement proposed that Brazilian artists and writers should cannibalise and devour influences from all around the world to create something that was uniquely Brazilian."
20. Wide of paintings
21. Various of ‘Lucy with Flower’, 1939-42, Lasar Segall
22. Various of ‘Migrants’, 1944, Candido Portinari, depicting part of the large-scale migration of rural communities in northeastern Brazil
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Tabish Khan, art critic:
24. Various of ‘Boy with Ram’, 1941, Candido Portinari
24. Various of sculpture ‘Emblematic Object’, 1973, Rubem Valentim
STORYLINE:
LEADIN:
A new exhibition charting Brazil’s Modernist movement has opened in London.
It brings together a body of work which has never been seen in the UK before.
STORYLINE:
Silva is one of ten selected for a major new exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts.
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