Brazil’s Modernist Art Gets a Celebration in London
By
Fernando Augusto Pacheco
The 1920s movement is winning fans abroad, even as its legacy is embattled at home.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on Guatemala. Brazilian modernist art seems to be having a moment in Europe. After a blockbuster exhibition of Brazil’s perhaps most popular painter, Tarsila do Amaral, at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris, the Royal Academy of Arts in London (RA) is currently hosting Brasil! Brasil! The Birth ofModernism, a sprawling show featuring 10 artists from the first half of the 20th century, plus the work of landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. The exhibition feels particularly special to the RA’s main curator,...
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