#antropophagia

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Cândido Portinari - Carajá Dancer

1959, Brazil

Cândido Portinari is one of Brazil’s greatest -if not the greatest- painters, and certainly the first to reach that level of international recognition. He is responsible for the famous “War and Peace” mural that decorates the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

Once referred to as “the Brazilian Picasso”, Portinari seamlessly incorporated the XX Century stylistic innovations from Europe without abandoning the ideals of the brazilian “antropophagia” movement, which advocated for the emergence of an uniquely Brazilian art, by merging European styles and techniques with themes related to the culture of the country, especially its often overlooked indigenous and African roots. (antropophagia literally means “cannibalism,” the devouring and assimilation of all that is human)

While Portinari is hardly considered a member of the 1920s first generation of antropophagues, Carajá Dancer, a 1959 portrait of a woman form the indigenous Carajá people with a clear cubist influence, is proof that his work is a masterful carrying over of those aesthetic ideals into new and even more modern art movements, proving that traditional indigenous culture can and should have a place in the bold and innovative modern culture of the XX Century.

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