Royal Academy takes pride in ‘Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism’
By James Brewer
Brasil! Brasil! – it sounds like the refrain for a samba, but it is the impelling title of an exhibition meant to awaken the wider world to Brazil’s breakthrough a century ago into dynamic new art trends
First, from their travels in Europe, and then from indigenous sources, young artists absorbed new sights and insights, as the Royal Academy explains in its show Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism.
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