Brazil’s art scene has always been an amalgam of different styles and influences, all of which have contributed to its vibrant current scene. During the colonial period, artists worked mostly within European schools of the day, but during the early republic the problem that would characterize much of Brazilian art arose: how to create authentically “Brazilian” art drawing on the country’s indigenous, African, and European influences without exoticizing Brazil itself. The answers posed to this problem—ranging from symbolic cannibalism to a strong current of regionalism—have defined Brazilian art throughout the past century.
BAROQUE. Colonial Brazilian architecture resembles the day’s style throughout South America: austere, tile-roofed buildings with whitewashed wood-and-clay walls supported by stone where available ...more
CERAMICS. Before the arrival of the European settlers, the Cunani and Maracá cultures of modern-day Pará used clay as a medium in vases, funeral urns, and statuary. Especially in the Northeast ...more
NEOCLASSICISM. Manuel da Costa Athayde, who worked with Aleijadinho, is well known for his incredible ceilings and murals in the churches of Ouro Preto, in addition to his work as a gilder. Although Jean-Baptiste ...more
EARLY EVENTS. The word “photography” is said to have been coined in Brazil, in the town of Campinas in São Paulo state. The French-born inventor Hercules Florence used this term (which ...more
COLONIAL BEGINNINGS. The travelogue, telling of the marvels of the New World, was Brazilian literature’s first prominent genre. Some literary historians trace Brazil’s literature all the way ...more
Music is Brazil’s most developed art form and undoubtedly one of the country’s greatest gifts to global culture. You could spend a lifetime studying the country’s rich and varied tradition ...more
FOLK TRADITIONS AND FUSION. Like many of the Brazilian arts, dance has been influenced by traditions from all over the globe (especially those of the Portuguese settlers and African slaves), and any one ...more
SILENCE AND SONG. Silent film began in Brazil with Antônio Leal’s thriller Os Estranguladores (The Stranglers; 1908) and peaked with Mario Peixoto’s surrealist classic Limite (Limit; ...more
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