Tarsila do Amaral

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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 the anthropophagy movement.

Tarsila do Amaral (around 1925)

Life

Together with her partner Oswald de Andrade , his friend Mário de Andrade , with Anita Malfatti , who, like her, was a student of Georg Fischer-Elpons ', and Menotti del Picchia, she belonged to the group of artists Grupo dos Cinco ("Group of Five") and was an employee of the cultural magazine Semana de Arte Moderna .

One of her most famous paintings, entitled Abaporu , was made in 1928. Abaporu ("ogre") means anthropophage in the Tupí language , after which the anthropophagy movement was named. The 85 cm × 73 cm painting was purchased by the Argentine collector and millionaire Eduardo Costantini for 1.5 million dollars in 1995 and is currently in the Museu de arte latino-americana in Buenos Aires (MALBA). It actually does not represent a cannibal, but a Plinian megapod .

The European conception of the primitiveness of foreign cultures, combined with the attribution of the noble savage , sometimes corresponds to the image of cannibalism. As an artistic movement against Eurocentrism and for a self-confident reference to their own traditions as well as to modern European styles, Tarsila do Amaral and the Movimento antropófago took up European stereotypes and ascriptions in order to deconstruct them .

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

In 2007 the asteroid (4123) Tarsila was named after her.

literature

  • Lucia Helena: Uma literatura antropofagica. UNI Ceara 2003.
  • Luzenir Caixeta (2004): Anthropophagy as an answer to Eurocentric cultural hegemony or: How the majority society ›must‹ swallow feminist migrants . In: Hito Steyerl, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez (ed.): Does the subaltern speak German? Migration and Post-Colonial Criticism. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-89771-425-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Amaral, Tarsila do
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian painter and co-founder of the anthropophagy movement
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Fazenda São Bernardo Capivari , São Paulo
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1973
Place of death São Paulo