Modern Art in Brazil

In Brazil, the new trends in art manifested themselves directly from the Modern Art Week of 1922.

Held at the Municipal Theater of São Paulo, the Modern Art Week was a great event that catalyzed all this cultural ebullition that Europe was going through.

The most diverse artistic genres participated in this event, such as writers, plastic artists, musicians and poets.

If in Europe Modernism was responsible for changing the course of classical art and questioning society, it was no different here, since, until now, our country was still immersed in the Neoclassical period, very focused on idealized representations of reality.

Above all, Modern Art in Brazil proposed a break with any artistic academicism and, mainly, the appreciation of national identity going to its roots.

Thus, the traditions, beliefs, customs and folklore of Brazil began to be valued in this new way of conceiving art.