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Cover of an exhibition catalog from the Semana de Arte Moderna, 1922.
Cover of an exhibition catalog from the Semana de Arte Moderna, 1922.

The Week of Modern Art (Semana de Arte Moderna) was an arts festival in São Paulo, Brazil, from February 11 to February 18, 1922. São Paulo ( is the largest city in Brazil, with its metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld Events 660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. Events 3102 BC - Epoch (origin of the Kali Yuga. 1229 - The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II Holy Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Historically, the Week marked the start of Modernismo (Brazilian Modernism); though a number of individual Brazilian artists were doing modernist work before the Week, it coalesced and defined the movement and introduced it to Brazilian society at large. Modernism describes an array of Cultural movements rooted in the changes in Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century For Brazil, it was as important as the International Exhibition of Modern Art (also known as the Armory Show), held in New York City in 1913, which became a legendary watershed date in the history of American art. Many exhibitions have been held in the vast spaces of US National Guard armories, but the Armory Show refers to the International Exhibition The City of New York Year 1913 ( MCMXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common

The Week took place at the Municipal Theater in São Paulo, and included plastic arts exhibitions, lectures, concerts, and reading of poems. Municipal Theatre of São Paulo is one of the most important Theatres in South America and one of the landmarks of the city of São Paulo. In its breadth it differed significantly from the Armory Show, with which it is often compared, but which featured only visual art. The visual arts are art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily Visual in nature such as Painting, Photography It was organized chiefly by painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti and poet Mário de Andrade, in an attempt to bring to a head a long-running conflict between the young modernists and the cultural establishment, headed by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, which adhered strictly to academicism. Emiliano Augusto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Melo ( September 6, 1897 – October 26, 1976) known as Di Cavalcanti, was a Brazilian For the Angolan politician and writer see Mário Pinto de Andrade. Academia Brasileira de Letras ( English: Brazilian Academy of Letters is a Brazilian literary non-profit society established Academic art is a style of Painting and Sculpture produced under the influence of European academies or universities The event was controversial at best and divisive at worst, with one member of the Academy, Graça Aranha, ostracized for attending. José Pereira da Graça Aranha ( 21 June 1868, São Luis, Maranhão – 26 January 1931, Rio de Janeiro) was He had opened the week with a conference titled "The aesthetic emotion in modern art". Due to the radicalism (for the times) of some of their poems and music, the artists were vigorously booed and pelted by the audience, and the press and art critics in general were strong in their condemnation (such as in a famous episode by editor, writer and art critic Monteiro Lobato). This article is about the Brazilian writer For the place in São Paulo, Brazil, named after him see Monteiro Lobato São Paulo.

The group that took part in the Week, contrary to their initial intentions, did not remain a unified movement. A number of separate groups split off, and the original core members had separated by 1929. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Two divisions predominated: the Anthropophagics (cannibalists), led by Oswald de Andrade, wanted to make use of the influence of European and American artists but freely create their own art out of the regurgitations of what they had taken from abroad (thus the term anthropophagy: they would "eat" all influences, digest it, and throw out new things). José Oswald de Andrade Souza ( January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954) was a Brazilian Poet and Polemicist The Nationalists wanted no foreign influences, and sought a "purely Brazilian" form of art. This group was led by writer Plínio Salgado, who later became a fascist political leader (Brazilian Integralism) and arrested by dictator Getúlio Vargas after a failed coup. Plínio Salgado ( January 22, 1895 &ndash December 7, 1975) was the founder and leader of the 1930s Brazilian political movement Brazilian Integralism (Integralismo brasileiro was a Brazilian political movement created in October 1932 Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (ʒeˈtulju doɾˈnɛlis vaɾgɐs April 19, 1882 – August 24, 1954) served as president of

Before the events leading up to 1922, São Paulo was a prosperous but culturally relatively unimportant city. However, the Week established São Paulo as the seat of the new modernist movement, against the far more culturally conservative Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro ("River of January" ˈhiw dʒi ʒʌˈnejɾu in Brazilian Portuguese, /ˈriːoʊ di ʒəˈnɛroʊ/ in English is the second largest city of Brazil

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