Tarsila do Amarila
See also:  [Latinos Fantasticos!]
           [Semana de arte moderna] (Week of Modern Art)
           [Blaise Cendrars]
           [Mario & Oswald de Andrade]
           [Art History INDEX]
                
Tarsila do Amaral

 (b. 1886.09.01, Capivari, Brasil; d.1973.01.17, São Paulo, Brasil)
aka "Tarsila"  (yeah!!! :)
 
(per Day & Sturges....

Chronology

(per op.cit.)

"The key event in the advance of avant-garde ideas, however,
 had been the Semana de arte moderna (Week of Modern
 Art), a festival of music, literature and poetry, and 
 painting and sculpture, hoedl in February 1922, when she
 was still in Paris. Comparable to the New York Armory
 show in 1913, the Semina shocked and out-raged 
 a complacent public [P.68] as it forced a confrontation
 with Modernism. Nationalistic in feeling (it co-incided
 with the celebration of the centenial of Brazil's 
 independence) and agressively experimental, the festival
 engenered sufficient controversy to establish itself
 as the landmark event in the history of Brazilian 
 Modernism. - op.cit.P.66-68

Meanwhile in 1924: "... she traveled thoguth the old 
                    gold-rush towns of Minas Gerais with 
Mario de Andrade

Important Works

Illustrates Cendrars' Feuilles de route I: Le Formose
(Paris, 1914)

""The Egg (Urutu)" (O ovo (Urutu))

"Urutu" is the Tupi-Guarani word for snake.
(Note: IT is the Guarani that the missionaries
try to "civilise" (supposedly by playing music
to attract them, they are later slaughtered by
the Portuguese (i think, does it matter? 
imperalists then are not the imperialists of
today); see: [José Gamarra]