FromBy Kamy, Tarsila do Amaral, Tapestry Tarsila do Amaral - Morro da Favela (2016), Wool, 110 Ă 137 cmTarsilado Amaral (Capivari, Brazil, 1886 - Sao Paulo, 1973) Pencil drawing on paper. 17 x 11,8 cm. MartĂn CererĂȘ catalogue, page 72 nÂș 11. Catalogue raisonnĂ©: D1398. Tarsila do Amaral was the most important representative of modernism in Brazil. In February 2019, the MoMA in New York acquired the painting "A LĂșa" for its collection.
Brazilianartist Tarsila do Amaral painted AbaporĂș in her SĂŁo Paulo studio early in 1928. It depicts a seated nude figure in profile who is of ambiguous age, gender, and race. His bare right foot and hand are firmly planted on the ground. His right knee is bent towards his chest, obscuring any view of a left leg or foot.
Curator Luis Perez-Oramas: In February 1924, Tarsila went alongside her husband, Oswald de Andrade, and her friend, the Swiss poet Blaise Cendrars, to Rio de Janeiro where they attended the festivities of Carnival. For that festivity, the people of Madureira (a neighborhood in the outskirts of Rio) had built a reproduction of the Eiffel Tower
Tarsilado Amaral 1925. Casa Guilherme de Almeida Sao Paulo, Brazil. The work is part of a period of transition between "Pau-Brazil" and "AntropofĂĄgica" fases of the artist. The composition, based on symmetry, geometrizes elements of nature and uses color in an unusual way, one of the characteristics of Tarsila's work.Tarsilado Amaral, (Portuguese pronunciation: [ Ëa.ma.ÉŸaw] September 1, 1886 â January 17, 1973), known simply as Tarsila, is considered one of the leading Latin American modernist artists, described as "the Brazilian painter who best achieved Brazilian aspirations for nationalistic expression in a modern style." She was a member of the "Grupo dos