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Tarnport (tarnport@mastodon.green)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 21:35:13 JST Tarnport

Tarsila do Amaral. A Negra, 1923.
Another woman paving the way to Brazilian modernism in the early 20th c. This portrait was painted within 1 year of the last #Painting I posted by Malfatti and only a few years after her contemporary challenged entrenched traditionalism in Brazilian painting for the first time. Look at how fast it blew up. This painting is often cropped online to remove the feet, which is odd since do Amaral's most famous painting, Abaporu, is dominated by a similar huge foot.
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1. A full-body modern portrait of a non-white nude Brazilian woman sitting cross-legged. The choice of subject and style is important in a country which had only recently outlawed slavery and to which modernist painting styles of any sort had only been introduced 10 years before. The figure is highly stylized and interpretive, with skewed lips that appear almost independent of her face, one breast hanging over an arm, and truncated lower-body anatomy. Behind her the background is boldly striped in blue, white, green, red and gold, and industrially stylized (though it may represent a version of traditional architecture and leaves) in what some consider an early intimation toward the "concrete modernism" for which Brazil became so famous a few decades later.
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