Tarsila Do Amaral: the Moon

Download or read book Tarsila Do Amaral: the Moon written by Beverly Adams and published by MoMA One on One Series. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Tarsila do Amaral forged the beginnings of a unique modernist vocabulary in Brazil Tarsila do Amaral's (1886-1973) painting The Moon (1928), a highly stylized, desolate nocturne, grew from the artist's desire to create a new national form of expression for Brazil. In The Moon and other paintings of the late 1920s, do Amaral successfully "cannibalized" modern European painting and Brazilian popular culture and Indigenous lore to transform them into something new. In this volume of the MoMA One on One series, curator Beverly Adams investigates do Amaral's unique negotiation of her Brazilian identity and the contemporary innovations of Europe, a balancing act on which she built a modern art for her country.