Tarsila do Amaral

Tarsila do Amaral ( born September 1, 1886 in Fazenda São Bernardo Capivari, São Paulo, † January 17, 1973 in São Paulo) was a Brazilian painter and co-founder of anthropophagy movement.

Life

Together with her ​​partner, Oswald de Andrade, Mário de Andrade 's friend, Anita Malfatti, Menotti del with Picchia they belonged to the group of artists Grupo dos Cinco ( " Group of Five " ) and was a staff member of the cultural magazine Semana de Arte Moderna.

One of her most famous painting entitled Abaporu was 1928. Abaporu ( " ogre ") means in the language of the Tupi anthropophagic after which named the anthropophagy movement. The 85 cm x 73 cm large painting was purchased in 1995 by the Argentine collector Eduardo Costantini and millionaire at $ 1,500,000 and is currently in the Museu de arte latino - americana in Buenos Aires ( MALBA ).

The European idea of ​​primitiveness their foreign cultures associated with the attribution of the noble savage at times corresponding to the image of cannibalism. As an artistic movement against Eurocentrism and a self-conscious reference to both their own traditions and modern European styles, Tarsila do Amaral and the Movimento Antropófago attacked on European stereotypes and attributions to deconstruct them.

In today's post-colonial criticism, there are fairly clear references to the Movimento Antropófago. Luzenir Caixeta and Lucia Helena refer in connection with the Movimento Antropófago also points to the Brazilian Carnival in his Dionysian and combative style, whose main characteristic is the criticism of the European dominant culture.