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Identity Brazil
Modernism and National Identity in Brazil, or How to Brew a Brazilian Stew -- Styliane Philippou
This article outlines some of the efforts that the Brazilian culture has made to separate themselves from the cultures of Europe and other influences. Brazil was granted its political independence in 1822 however the countries cultural emancipation came much later. Pilippou (2005) writes:
One hundred years after Independence (1822), the second discovery of Brazil aimed to couple political independence with cultural emancipation, and demanded the invention of an authentic hybrid Brazilian tradition on the basis of which to construct an autonomous Brazilian art. The quest of modernity was parallel to an intensified quest for brasilidade, which embraced all things that had remained relatively untouched by what was viewed as...
During the Empire which followed Independence, economic domination was British and cultural French (Pilippou, 2005).
There was a quest by the culture to regard a sense of identity that was all its own and it did so by looking at the local items that had been untouched by foreign cultures.
In the 1920s, groups began to become increasingly interested with India and Black members of their society. The white elites that were in power generally set the attitudes towards culture and these groups had never before gained a place in mainstream Brazilian culture. Tarsila do Amaral, daughter of wealthy Sao Paulo landowners and coffee-growers and trained in Paris, painted A negra (A Negro Woman) at the atelier of…
Works Cited
Pilippou, S. (2005). Modernism and National Identity in Brazil, or How to Brew a Brazilian Stew. National Identities, 245-264.
Tarsila Do Amaral One of the most important Brazilian artists of the 20th century, Tarsila do Amaral, was born in Sao Paulo in 1886. She had a privileged childhood as the grandchild of a rich farmer. This brought with it various advantages, including an education that taught her to read, write, embroider and speak French (Damian, 1999). Finishing her studies in France and returning to Brazil, this artist left an impression
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