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MOMA - THROUGH JUNE 3, 2018! = NOT TO BE MISSED = !! https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3871?locale=en
FIRST EXHIBITION IN THE UNITED STATES! This great Brazilian Modernist Painter is very well known in her own country and I'm certainly proud to call attention to all of MODERNISM.COM's visitors and clients of this exhibit in New York. Here's an excerpt from the MOMA website:
“I want to be the painter of my country,” wrote Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973) in 1923. Born at the end of the 19th century to a family of coffee plantation owners in São Paulo, Tarsila―as she is affectionately known in Brazil―studied piano, sculpture, and drawing before leaving for Paris in 1920 to attend the Académie Julian, the famous art school that drew many international students. During subsequent sojourns in the French capital, she studied with André Lhote, Albert Gleizes, and Fernand Léger, fulfilling what she called her "military service in Cubism," ultimately arriving at her signature style of sensuous, vibrant landscapes and everyday scenes...
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