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165: 116:, 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). The Nationalists wanted no foreign influences, and sought a "purely Brazilian" form of art. This group was led by writer 100:, ostracized for attending. 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 33: 131:
Before the events leading up to 1922, São Paulo was a prosperous but relatively culturally unimportant city. However, the Week established São Paulo as the seat of the new modernist movement, against the far more culturally conservative
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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. Two divisions predominated: the
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in São Paulo, and included plastic arts exhibitions, lectures, concerts, and reading of poems. In its breadth it differed significantly from the Armory Show, with which it is often compared, but which featured only
68:; 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. 164: 431: 456: 517: 88:, in an attempt to bring to a head a long-running conflict between the young modernists and the cultural establishment, headed by the 522: 507: 512: 502: 72: 401: 396: 89: 424: 57: 466: 173: 460: 253: 194: 497: 451: 109: 492: 184: 155: 81: 328: 121: 417: 263: 211: 273: 305: 258: 487: 354:
Amaral, Aracy; Kim Mrazek Hastings (1995). "Stages in the Formation of Brazil's Cultural Profile".
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The Municipal Theater of São Paulo, in a photo from the beginning of the 1920s.
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Cover of an exhibition catalog from the Modern Art Week, 1922
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Index

Week of Modern Art

Portuguese
arts festival
São Paulo
Brazil
Brazilian Modernism
Municipal Theater
visual art
Emiliano Di Cavalcanti
Mário de Andrade
Brazilian Academy of Letters
academicism
Graça Aranha
Monteiro Lobato
Anthropophagics
Oswald de Andrade
Plínio Salgado
Brazilian Integralism
Getúlio Vargas
Rio de Janeiro
Anita Malfatti
Emiliano Di Cavalcanti
Zina Aita

Vicente do Rego Monteiro
Ferrignac
Yan de Almeida Prado
John Graz
Alberto Martins Ribeiro

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