Tarsila C Amaral
Tarsila C Amaral is a artist-painter Brazilian of the modernistic school (1886-1973).
It was born in 1886 in an easy family from the area from Sao Paulo - his/her father was a rich person coffee planter - and follows the teaching of Pedro Alexandrino, before leaving in 1920 to Paris to look further into its formation there. It will follow there the courses of the modernistic artists like Fernand Leger, Albert Gleizes and André Lhote.
It develops little by little a particular and coloured style, mingling its Brazilian culture with the techniques learned with Paris like the preparatory drawings and the development from the compositions. It will present fabrics inviting to imagination and the daydream.
With her friends Oswald de Andrade - who will become her husband - and Blaise Cendrars it reaches the world of Parisian arts, but often turns over in its native land where with her friends Anita Malfatti, Mario de Andrade and Menotti del Picchia, it will be the iniatrice of modernistic art in Brazil.
Its production is most fertile between 1923 with 1929, but its success was limited, because the beginnings of surrealism drew all the attentions of the public. Then it turns to the Communist party and the realistic Art and it is only much later, towards its old age, that it will return to imagination and the phantasms.
Two exposures were carried out to Paris for this artist, one in 1926 and last the beginning 2006 - at the House of Americas. According to Paulo Herkenhoff, director of the Museum of the fine arts of Rio de Janeiro, it is the “ barometer of the Brazilian company of the first decades of the XXe century. ”
Works
not-exhaustive List of its works- Rio de Janeiro , landscape
- has cuca , legend
- O mamoeiro , scene of the daily life
- has Negra has red Sol poente
- Manteau , self-portrait, 1923, oil on fabric, 73 X 60 cm
- Carnaval in Madureira , 1924, oil on fabric, 76 X 65 cm
- Urutu , 1928, oil on fabric, 60,5 X 72,5 cm
External bonds
- House of the Latin America
- Tarsila C Amaral in Artcyclopedia
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